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The Number Nine Seems To Be Fatal To Symphonists. Beethoven,

Bruckner, Mahler—they all reached it, and none passed it. And now Vaughan Williams, only a few months after the first performance of his ninth symphony, is dead. 1 have been......

The Nottingham Episode Came In Time To Prevent Any...

feelings about the latest turn in the Little Rock dispute, or about the case of the Alabama Negro sentenced to death for the theft of a few shillings. These are ugly symptoms;......

Conference Season

WHEN Mr. Masefield announced that he must go down to the sea again, it is all hell to a china orange that he was not contem- plating a visit to the annual gab- fests held by the......

Notebook A Spectator's

restrictions on immigration. Neither Mr. James Harrison (Lab.) nor Lieut.-Colonel Cordeaux (Cons.) specifically says he means on coloured people, but this is clearly the......

Very Different Feelings Were Roused In Me By The Tide

of cant which has flowed steadily (with one or two notable exceptions) since Strydom died on Sunday. Why no newspaper has come flat out and said that the man was a Nazi, and a......