18 JANUARY 1930, page 10

What Is Wrong With Scotland ?

E DINBURGH is not, perhaps, the hub of the universe. But her inhabitants console themselves that it is more distinguished to live in a city with a past than in a town with a......

Persimmons

I N November a fresh colour invades the brown dusty streets and alleys of Peking ; a new object appears among the extraordinarily miscellaneous collections of lesser forms of......