20 AUGUST 1937, page 6

A Spectator's Notebook

O NE startling, perhaps I should say appalling, sentence in a despatch from Times correspondent at Shanghai one day this week has, so far as I have seen, provoked no comment......

Reaso'riably Devoid Though I Hope I Am Of Malice And

uncharitableness—envy I am not prepared completely to condemn or abjure—I rejoice unfeignedly to see that thanks to the activity of the Sussex police a number of vandals in that......

" She, Her Poodle, Is The Envy Of Bath." With

what inspiration is the assertion charged. The envy of Bath. Theme how admirable for a poem, or an essay, or a novel,' with the choice of eighteen centuries for epoch. Who was......

* * * * We Had Not Really Got Accustomed

yet to calling Ian Macpherson Lord Strathcarron, though he had held his peerage for over a year. Bad health had compelled him to drop out of the main stream of politics—he had......

So The Dockers Have Got Another Bob. I Describe The

rise thus advisedly, to put it in right relation with the famous " dockers' tanner " won after the historic strike of 1889, when the men's cause was championed by Cardinal......

The Bishop Of Gloucester Is A Noted Scholar And Theologian,

but his utterances on public affairs are not as a rule con- spicuously progressive. I am not surprised, therefore, to see him strenuously opposing the idea of a World Council of......

Universities And Employment

O NE of the most important aspects of contemporary university life in this country is discussed in a report published this week by the National Union of Students on the problem......