28 APRIL 1950, page 5

From My Self-typing Correspondent: " I Am Stying Down Here

for the next two weeka." Pigging it ? JANus.......

More Versatility "late In Life I Have Begun To Keep

a herd of Churchill in the House of Commons on Monday. cows."—Mr.......

If The Grocers' Hall Had Been Blown Up On Monday

while the luncheon in honour of the new Chambers' Encyclopaedia was in progress there, half the universities in the country would have had to close their doors for lack of......

A Rather Strange Question Was Included In An Examination...

set last week to persons taking the Colonial Course at Cambridge : " Do you consider Islam or Christianity the more suitable religion for an African community which finds its......

Wordsworth Country, On Which An Archbishop And Two...

doubt whether the poet was really episcopophile), Lord Beveridge and Professor Basil Willey and Dr. Helen Darbishire descended at the week-end, may claim to have provided the......

Up Till Last Week Mr. W. W. Hadley, Then 84,

and still occupying the editorial chair of 'the Sunday Times, must have been easily the oldest active editor of an important journal ; even Mr. Robertson Scott put his......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE problem of the Dean of Canterbury becomes in- creasingly acute. A Dean is commonly assumed to have decant duties of some consequence to occupy him. They do • not seem to......

Someone, I Feel Sure, Can Solve For Me The Mystery

of Dumbarton and Dunbarton. In the newspaper reports of the recent by-election the two forms seem to have been used indiscriminately, but there is no doubt some distinction......

Parliament Under Test

T HE Government fortunately escaped defeat on Wednesday, though only by a hairbreadth—fortunately, because no man in any party could desire to see the country plunged into......