27 JUNE 1931, page 12

. . . And Three."

We have always - suspected statisticians to be a mean- souled, sublunary race of men, incapable of the higher thing's. Never has our suspicion received such striking .......

A Penny Of Observation

NATIONALISM AND THE OPERA. Last week in the House of Commons the Duchess of Atholl, by asking how far the grant of the Opera Subsidy would result in the " encouragement and......

Society Note.

A contemporary alleges that the so-called " London Season " is neither more nor less than a marriage market, conducted on attractive but fundamentally mercenary lines. We have......

The Go-getter.

The other day, in Hereford, a man who claimed, through descent from the Tudors, to be the rightful king of England, was fined 104. for holding a meeting Of six hundred people to......

A Hospital For Animals

W ALKING through the Cloth Market of the Medina (Arab town) I saw a little Arab boy pulling the beard of a Jew. The Jew's face wore the sickly smile of one who knew that it......