29 OCTOBER 1937, page 6

* * * * I Commented Last Week On The

remarkable fact that the first edition of the new los. 6d. Bible-25,000 copies—was sold out in the first week. Little less surprising is the success achieved by the Religious......

The Announcement In The Speech From The Throne That King

George has invited the King of the Belgians to visit him next month seems to me very interesting. Constitu- tional sovereigns are not so common in Western Europe that the......

Was It Kipling—i Have Failed To Find The Reference—who Wrote

a poem on how Private Jones rode for the first time behind four horses, with the Colonel and officers to attend him and the band of the regiment to play him home ? I thought of......

Esperanto, Much The Best-known Of The " Universal...

this year completed a half-century of existence. The fact is historically interesting, but it serves mainly to emphasise the surprising failure of any of the various artificial......

I See A News Reel Association Of Great Britain And

Ireland has been formed to protect the interests of all con- nected with the production, distribution and exhibition of news-reel pictures. This means, I hope, that there will......

A Spectator's Notebook

I AM not using the word portent portentously when I say that the election of Canon Sheppard as Rector of Glasgow University is a portent. I simply mean that it portends......

Disordered Minds

T HE annual report of the Board of Control on Lunacy and Mental Deficiency is an unsensational but extremely interesting document. The incidence and treatment of mental diseases......