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A Hundred Years Ago From The 'spectator', 1 February...

Two Flags. By Ouida. Three vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—This story is sometimes interesting, and often exciting; but it is simply absurd and im- possible. The rose-pink atmosphere......

This Blessed Plot

THE PRESS GEORGE HUTCHINSON Libel lawyer or no libel lawyer, it may be that Lord Gardiner is too innocent for the office of Lord Chancellor, which calls, I should have thought,......

From Selection To Selectivity?

EDUCATION STUART MACLURE This is the first of a new series of educational articles which will appear regularly in the • SPECTATOR. Stuart Maclure is the editor of the - weekly......