20 AUGUST 1932, page 10

Theatre

" Orders are Orders." A Military Diversion by Ian Hay and Anthony Armstrong. At the Shaftesbury Theatre. AN Y example of compact interdependent life under artificial conditions......

Portrait Of A Traveller

BY HELEN SIMPSON. T HAD occasion recently to go into a foreign country whose language, theoretically, I spoke ; that is to say, whose language I had been taught at school, and......

A Hundred Years Ago

THE " SPECTATOR," AUGUST ISTH, 1832. The take of salmon has been so great at Fort William this season, that the ice has been exhausted, and the fishers have had a number of......

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By A Letter Received From A Gentleman Who Accompanied Lord

Durham to St. Petersburg, we learn that the Emperor professes great anxiety to meet the views of the British Government on the subject of Poland. The writer adds, that, from the......

Death Of The Season. — Had The Gods Made Us Poetical, We

should now write an elegy upon the departed season. Thomson sung the Seasons ; but we speak of " the season of the seasons," as the almanack-venders have it. What a solitude is......