22 AUGUST 1931, page 11

Summer Camps In Italy

BY A. 0. ROBERTS. I T is a curious fact that while most Northerners think of Italy as a land whose fortunate inhabitants bask in perpetual sunshine the Italians themselves have,......

Agreed.

" C'est une etrange entreprise que celle de faire rire les honnetes......

The Theatre

" THE MIDSHIPMAID." BY IAN HAY AND STEPHEN KING- HALL. AT THE SHAFTESBURY THEATRE. IT is generally at this • time of year that Mr. Ian Hay and Mr. Basil Foster put out to sea......

Descriptive Methods.

People, on the whole, are very bad at describing each other. The pre-Raphaelite, or Police Court, method, which is the most reliable of a bad lot, and consists of the enumera-......

A Penny Of Observation

ARNADO : How haat thou purchased this experience ? MOTH : By my penny of observation. (Love's Labour's Lost.) THE THIN Elio OF THE WEDGE. The Times reported last week that for......

Since Writing The Above, We Observe That The Times Has

reidentified the bird on top of St. Paul's as a cormorant. This only makes matters worse. The cormorant (Phala- crocorax garbo, sometimes known as " the Swedish night- ingale ")......