29 AUGUST 1931, page 9

Incongruities

Captain Edward Gibbon—I By E. M. FORSTER. T HE garden where I am writing slopes down to a field, the field to a road, and along that road exactly 170 years ago passed a young......

A Penny Of Observation

ARMADO : How hast thou purchased this experience ? Mora: By my penny of observation. (Love's Labour's Lost.) THE POST. It was recently our good fortune to acquire, for the sum......

Thus Far The Guide Had Provided Us With Agreeable Reading

and a fascinating field for speculation. It was not until the section on "Imperial and Foreign Parcel Post" was reached that there began to creep over us that sickening feeling......