3 AUGUST 1956, page 9

A Spectator's Notebook

ONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES Of the House of Lords is that it is liable to be laughed at both when its members turn up and when they stay away. More than three hundred attended the......

The Balliol Rhymesters Are Not Resting On The Laurels Of

their lively predecessors. A new collection is being formed and I have, hot from Oxford, the following masterpiece (I have thought it wise to bowdlerise the second line): My......

Amidst The Hysteria And Confusion About The Old Trafford...

three things seem reasonably clear. The suggestion that the wicket had been doctored to suit our side at the behest of the English selectors was ridiculous and disgraceful. But......

' Think Ye Not Shame,' One Might Say To The Antiquarian

book- sellers as Dunbar said to the merchants of Edinburgh. 'that sic dishonour hurt your name?' So far as 1 can judge from the reactions of their trade association to the......

Goodness Knows What Lord Selborne Must Think Of The Eton

College Chronicle these days—what with a leading article advocating the Big Go-By for Early School, a poem recom- mending another pint of beer as a cure for ennui during the......

In A Letter To The Editor Mr. Evelyn Waugh Calls

me a booby, and no doubt he is right—though not, I think, for the right reason. He takes me to task for saying last week : 'to the abbess, the deification of the Mother of God......