31 OCTOBER 1947, page 5

There Is, After All, Still Some Mystery About Mr. Speaker

Yelverton and his prayer. Foss's judges of 'England (1857) says of Sir Christopher Yelverton: "the prayer which according to the custom of those times he composed and read to......

The "council Public School" Which The Surrey Education...

is to open at Ottershaw Park, near Chertsey, will be watched with interest in all educational circles. The difficulties are consider- able, if the aim is to create anything like......

I Have Just Been Reading A Very Creditable Little Poem

on Malta by an author aged fourteen. I find myself concurring in all his sentiments, but particularly in those enshrined in one quatrain: "For though the heart can help a lot,......

The Creation Of A New College At Oxford Or Cambridge

is some- thing of an event. The last additions to the list were, I think, Keble at Oxford (I88o) and Selwyn at Cambridge (1882)—though Selwyn has in fact not completely full......

* * * * Lord Lytton Was One Of The

finest examples of that type of public man in which this country is so fortunately rich. An aristocrat by tradition and distinguished in bearing, he was essentially a democrat......

Labour And The Nation

T HERE was a moment just before the opening of the present session of Parliament when it almost seemed that the Govern- ment had taken a new lease of life. After the succession......

A Spectator 's 'notebook

T HE radio service which Mr. George Tomlinson, the Minister of Education, conducted on Sunday morning was in many ways remarkable. The occasion was Education- Sunday, and......