23 NOVEMBER 1929, page 28

How To Enjoy Being Uncomfortable

y OUTH knows. It despises comfort. In fact, dis- comfort is a sharp stimulating ingredient of its delight. Ask any youngster who plays football or squash, who rides to hounds,......

A Hundred Years Ago

THE " SPECTATOR," NOVEMBER 21ST, 1829. HALF-DsoNit. Four young men, surgeons, were held to bail at the Mansionhouse on Monday, for a riot which they had created at the Mitre......

Herons

[We are indebted to Mr. E. F. Benson for permission to print this hitherto unpublished poem by his father, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. It was written on a reading party......