25 MAY 1929, page 10

Glimpses Of Seventeenth Century Life In Scotland

THE Diary as a literary form (if indeed it be a literary form) seems to be specially the product of the seventeenth century. And what with the diaries and biographies, as well......

A Famous Westminster Election'

I N these days of more or less equal-sized .parliamentary constituencies, we may contemplate with amazement the state of affairs before 1832. Five hundred and thirteen members......