28 JANUARY 1938, page 6

In View Of The Criticisms Passed On Some Of The

views expressed by the Commission on Doctrine in the Church of England as rather advanced, a passage in a letter by Benjamin Jowett written forty-five years ago to Lady Oxford,......

A Notebook Is For Things Noted. One Thing Noted This

week is a declaration made last week-end by Lord Francis Scott on behalf of the white settlers in Kenya regarding the reservation of the Highlands for Europeans, to the exclu-......

Political Controversies Can Be Stilled By Weddings As...

funerals, and the more so when the wedding is a golden one. Mr. Lloyd George has in his time been a target for as many bricks as he has thrown, which is saying something. On......

It Must Have Been Very Distressing For A Minister So

averse to publicity as Mr. Hore-Belisha to read the last issue of the Sunday Pictorial. The Army, it appears, " is only playing soldiers." Everything is wrong with it, wrong......

Children And Crime

N OTHING that concerns crime and criminals can be without interest ; and of crime's many forms, juvenile : delinquency is in some ways the most fascinating and significant. The......

I Am Chidden (quite Deservedly, As Usual) For Describim...

" provincial " universities other than Oxford and Cam- bridge. I have seen other people do it, but that, admittedly, is no defence. But how are you to distinguish them ? Why. it......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE opening of the hundredth meeting of the League of Nations Council sends the mind back to the first—held in Paris, at the Quai d'Orsay, in the January of 1920. That was the......