17 MAY 1935, page 6

I Am Very Glad To See Full Appreciation Given By

the Press to the almost pathetic display of loyalty throughout the poorer parts of London and other great cities. The decorations there are most of their home-made and mean ten......

Dr. Burkitt Was, I Believe, The Only Layman To Hold

a divinity professorship at Oxford or Cambridge: So at least I am assured, though I invite contradiction. A great textual critic and a great higher critic, he was convinced......

Marshal Pilsudski Was A Strange Mixture Of Charac-...

emotions. Despite the tension with Lithuania he had always a latent affection for that small country because he was born there. A story I was told when I was last in Warsaw......

There Is Some Resentment, I Gather, In Government Offices At

the method adopted to whip up subscriptions from civil servants to the Jubilee Trust Fund. Purely civil offices have circulated an appeal signed not only by Sir Warren Fisher of......

— New York Nation.

But after all not much harm - will come of it so long as they stick to Gurton and Noonham and leave their own women's colleges alone, JANUS,......

* * * It Is Particularly Fortunate „that The Office

of Works; which has had so much responsibility for Jubilee arrange ments, particularly the arrangements in Westminster Hall on - Tuesday, has I: ad at its head at this tithe-......

The Assistant Literary Editor Of The Morning Post, I See,

is anxious (if someone will finance him) to start a new periodical dealing solely with books and providing the public with reviewing that really is reviewing. I have some......

A Spectator's Notebook

W HO started the idea of a Silver Jubilee, for which, after all, there was no precedent ? I find from a study of Hansard that the first - reference to it in Parlia- ment was on......

The Education Of A Citizen

" . j. ASK you to remember. that in days to come you will JL be citizens of a great Empire.'" Such were the words which the King addressed specially to children in his broadcast......