A Spectator's Notebook
S OME tinewithin the next twelve months or so the Government will be called on to make an appointment of immense importance—though no one, so far as I know, is giving a thought......
* * * I Am A Good Deal Interested In
the judgement given by Mr. Justice Finlay last Friday in the appeal of the Boner Law College at Ashridgc for income-tax remission on the ground that the college is a .charitable......
George Saintsbury Probably Had A Greater Voracity For"...
any other man of his time. He devoured books of any and every kind with as much relish as some readers will devour the whole available mass of detective story literature. It is......
Sir John Reith, I Observe, Attr Ibutes The Murder Of
English pronunciation to (a) the educated ;. (b) the un- educated ; (c) the clergy. A subtle distinction which seems to demand the attention of Convocation. * * .* *......
I Have Just Had A Very Interesting Japanese Point Of
view put to me. I am far from endorsing it, but, con- sidering the source from which it comes, it is, at any rate, worth presenting. Japan, it is argued, is at the moment under......
It Seems To Me A Pity That Professor J. B.
S. Haldane should be giving up his Readership in Bio-themistry . Cambridge University. It is precisely because his tem- perament is so little that of a conventional Don that......
I Stand Justly Convicted On The Charge Of Having Said
a week or two ago that Mr. Lloyd George was still years younger than Gladstone was when he went on the Mid-' lothian campaign. Actually he is the same age. The cause of the slip......
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