19 SEPTEMBER 1931, page 22

Michael Faraday

IT is an odd thing that Michael Faraday, whose single-minded devotion to the search after scientific knowledge for its own sake has led to the manifold applications of......

Hogarth Lectures

ONE advantage in writing in a series of " lectures " is that your title can quite clearly state what your book is about ; there is no feverish searching for a public-catcher.......

Deer-stalking

STALKING is a sport with which you cannot flirt. The dilet- tante, who tries it and gives it up, imagines in his heart of hearts that he has been repelled by its austerity. All......