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A Spectator Competition For Schools

THREE prizes of eight guineas each are offered for the three best original descriptive reports (between 500 words and 750 words) of any notable event occurring between July 1,......

Ruling Bodies

GOVERNMENT BY COMMITTEE. By K. C. Wheare. (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 25s.) OUR common understanding of a political community, not only as a collection of human beings calling......

An Autobiography

OVER THE BRIDGE. By Richard Church. (Heinemann, 18s.) FROM the dingy miasmic depths of the lower middle classes few voices speak. As Richard Church is now one of the few, that......

Hogarth

HOGARTH'S PROGRESS. By Peter Quennell. (Collins, 25s.) WILLIAM ,HOGARTH'S life story makes oddly dissatisfying reading. It was a success story that turned sour. His energy and......