19 MARCH 1932, page 12

Most Interesting Papers In A Remarkable Series: We

need not he idolators of the past to realize how much we have lost in the disappearance of that old . leisured world. Its conventions were often irritating, hist they had......

A Spectator's Notebook

TT looks as if the reform of the House of Lords were -I- once again to be a public question. Ever since John Russell in 1869 proposed the , creation of life peers, the debate......

There May Be Better Occasional Reading' Than The Complete...

but I do not know where to find it. It would be an ideal bedside book if it were less formidable in size, for it is a mine of entertaining and scholarly gossip. The new - eighth......

A Controversy Is Raging (has Anyone, By The Way, Ever

seen a controversy doing this, or heard of one that didn't ?) over the question of evening dregs in the theatre. The convention which prescribes it as a uniform for the tenants......

Tions, The London Club. Admittedly Its Great Days Have Gone.

The week-end habit, the growth of restaurants and the emancipation of women have hit it hard. The - segregation of men in their own citadels is - out of tune with the modern......

Aristide Briand Used To Be Commonly Compared With Mr. Lloyd

George, since both were Celts and both were orators. But the comparison did not go beyond externals. The Breton was the gentler figure of the two, and he never had Mr. Lloyd......