Just The Thing
A friend has just returned to London with a present which he bought for me in Tokyo. It is a very superior notebook, handsomely bound in leather, and in gilt letters upon the......
Sculpture And The Box Office An Ice-cream Merchant, Who Had
them off a popcorn dealer, is advertising three statues by Epstein for sale. He acquired them with the other assets of a Blackpool fun-fair, and they include the seven foot high......
The Squire Of Fosse There Is Of Course A General
improbability about Buchan's admirable stories, as there is about all thrillers; but it is sur- prising how often, and in what unexpected contexts, he slips into either......
The Squire Of Whitehall
The State is already far and away the biggest land-owner in the country. It is typical of its outlook both as an owner and user of land that it hasn't the foggiest idea how much......
A Spectator's Notebook
I FIND it easy to undeistand why many of my compatriots want, and always have wanted, to own some land of their own, but very difficult , to understand—save in purely......
Masquerades And Fallacies
In his capital book Clubland Heroes, Mr. Richard Usborne touches on John Buchan's odd belief in the efficacy of disguise; he really did seem to think, judging by the frequency......
No Challenge To Britain
T HE Labour Party's policy statement Challenge to Britain never at any time justified its title. Its central characteristic is its wary and restrained approach to the question......
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