27 FEBRUARY 1926, page 14

I Wonder What Is The Percentage Of People In Great

Britain who eat the wrong kind of diet ? It must be a a very high one. As a nation we are only beginning to realize the importance of diet, and in this respect we have much to......

* * * On Sunday I Went To Evensong In

a London church which I had not visited for some years. To my sorrow I found that the congregation had sunk to a third of its former size. Before the War many used to be turned......

A Correspondent Sends Me Some Literature Published By The...

for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, New York, a society which has been trying to arouse public opinion in America in favour of the abolition of the death penalty. The......

A Tennis Balls Controversy

• TN a very characteristic English country house there is , -I- preserved as an historical relic—it may become an heirloom—the first, the very first, covered lawn tennis ball.......

Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson Has Recently Published His Book...

full story of the Wrangel Island expe- ditions. As a lecturer he has great following in Canada and the United States. Of Scandinavian descent, he himself was born in Manitoba. I......

The Plight Of The British Film Industry Is The Subject

of much discussion. The Board of Trade, the London County Council, the Federation of British Industries and other august bodies have been devoting attention to it. In the cinema......

Spectabilia

IN the second and succeeding issues of the Spectator in 1828 there appeared one or two columns of extracts from the contemporary Press and " observations on sub- jects of......