29 JUNE 1951, page 5

A Week Or Two Ago I Hatl To Go To

my district post office to claim a registered letter which had not been delivered owing to my house being closed at the week-end. Having got there, I naturally produced my......

My Reference Last Week To 'an Action Brought By A

peer and his son against the publishers of a reference-book which had erroneously stated that the peer had no heir has brought me a reminiscence—which I have not had the......

The Recorder Of Merthyr Tydfil, Writing With As Much...

as the mutual regard and admiration in which we hold one another (how could he not admire me?) permits, insists that the borough for which he records should be spelt like that,......

Eleventh Hour In Persia

E VENTS in Persia arc moving rapidly towards a final break- down. In his statement to the House of Commons on Tuesday Mr. Morrison spoke of the evacuation of the Oil- fields as......

I Have Gazed With A Good Deal Of Awe At

the new complete Shakespeare which Messrs. Collins have published this week at 15s. The price is noteworthy, having regard to the quality of the. print, paper and binding ; the......

A Spectator's Notebook 0 Ne Of The Events Not Only

of the cricket year but of the Parliamentary year is the dinner regularly given, with great generosity, by Sir Stanley Holmes. National Liberal M.P. for Harwich, to the year's......

The Demise Of Public Opinion Is An Indication Of The

way things ire going in parts of the periodical world. It Causes regret more by reason of the paper's distant than of its recent past. Under Percy L. Parker, in the early years......