30 MARCH 1951, page 4

A Spectator's Notebook

T HIS year's Easter weather seems to have done a good deal to strengthen the popular appeal for a fixed Easter, for whatever the elements may have in store for the date which......

The Death Of Sir Harold Butler Will Cause Wide And

deep sorrow, for he was a man who inspired regard and respect in a quite unusual degree. His varied record, Eton and Balliol, Fellow of All Souls, Home Office, Ministry of......

I Sec That The Glasgow Herald And The Scotsman Have

both found it necessary to advance their price from 2d. to 3d.—a grim portent of what is likely to happen increasingly in different quarters. The cost of paper has risen, and is......

* * * * To Know How To Popularise Christianity—still

more, how to popularise it without over-popularising it—is a perpetual problem. There are always different tastes to be appealed to. Many people, for example, approve strongly......

The Boat Race Result Must Be Counted As First And

foremost a triumph for Lady Margaret, which supplied five out of the eight oarsmen in the Cambridge crew. It is in keeping with the strik- ing revival in Lady Margaret rowing......

I See That Publishers, Faced, Like Everyone Else, With...

costs, arc proposing to recoup themselves to some extent by reducing authors' royalties. Not being myself guilty of any prospective authorship above the low level of this......

Towards Strong Government

I T is a sign of the confusion into which Parliament has fallen that the short Easter pause which should be the occasion for a searching review of the real content of the......