29 APRIL 1938, page 6

The Strain On The Buttons "goring Has A Fine Head

; that he is so fat that he seems to have difficulty in bringing his hands together when dapping is due to war-wounds, not to self - indulgence." — Mai or Yeats-Brown, in The......

The Heavy Fall In The Number Of Children Attending Sunday

schools reported at the Baptist Union meetings this week (Baptists 16,000 fewer in the year, Congregationalists 23,000, Methodists 66,000, Anglicans 82,000) is a serious matter......

If The Common Report That The First Head Of The

new Nuffield College at Oxford is to be Mr. H. B. Butler, Director of the International Labour Office, is true, as no doubt it is, both the loss to Geneva and the gain to Oxford......

Writing Last Week Away From References (as Might Perhaps...

been divined from internal evidence) I quoted a couplet of Tennyson's not precisely as Tennyson wrote it. What he did write was : LG • • bright and fierce and fickle is the......

Mr. Richard Sickert Has, I See It Stated, Recorded The

opinion that Mr. Wyndham Lewis is "the best portrait painter ever." But people like Rembrandt and Velasquez must be considered quite good runners-up. * * * *......

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A Remarkable Evidence Of The Increasing Liberalism Of Mr. De

Valera's re'gime in Eire is the choice of Dr. Douglas Hyde as the first President of Eire and Mr. de Valera's personal nominations to the new Senate. Dr. Hyde is, of course, the......

The Agreement With Eire The Agreement Signed On Monday...

Ministers of the United Kingdom and Ministers of Eire formally concludes a disastrous chapter in Anglo-Irish history and initiates a new one of substantial promise. To the......

With Regard To My Note About The Habit Prevalent In

the West Indies of reckoning all prices in dollars and cents instead of the official sterling currency, Major-General Lethbridge Alexander, who has just come back from St.......

A Spectator's Notebook

M R. WYNDHAM LEWIS' portrait of Mr. T. S. Eliot is creating more of a stir than it really deserves. The artist will certainly revel in the publicity ; Mr. Augustus John will......