31 AUGUST 1934, page 6

Lancashire Somehow Hardly Strikes One As County...

county champion it is— in spite, at first sight, of the fact that it has had only one man in the English XI in one of the five Test.matches. Actually that has been a......

The Selection Of General Higgins' Successor As Head Of The

Salvation Army has not been made, as I write. There is, therefore, nothing to be said about the High Council's decision. But there is something to be said about the elaboration......

I Learned With Much Regret Of The Death Of The

Bishop of Ripon last week just as this column had gone to press. The first time I met Dr. Burroughs, close on thirty years ago, he was clad in vest and shorts, and pounding......

When A Member Of The Royal Family Gets Engaged There

is really only one thing to be said, that we con- gratulate him heartily and wish him all possible pro, perity, and the efforts of the leader-writers in the daily papers on......

Ora Dit : That Now That Our Very Vocal Minister

of Transport has successfully launched his great experiment he might with advantage construct a zone of silence......

The Lesson Of Tolpuddle

A FOREIGN observer, noticing the great attention that has been given in England this year to the case of the Tolpuddle labourers, might form a wrong conclusion about British......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE rumours about President de Valera's desire to reopen conversations with Great Britain on the annuities and other questions seem to have no particular authority behind them.......

Suicide Is Rather A Grim Subject, But It Deserves Study,

and there is in fact a remarkably scanty literature regard- ing it. What brings it to mind, of course, at the moment is the poignant letter left behind by the woman Elsie......