3 JANUARY 1964, page 12

Two Cheers For Forster He Is Eighty-five Now, And With

each half- decade the body of tributes to E. M. Forster seems to grow larger than his own published work. The latest collection (E. M. Forster : A Tribute, Harcourt, Brace)......

Sir Jack . . . Sir Frank Sir John Berry

Hobbs is dead. The 197 cen- turies, the 61,237 runs, stand in the record book. The Hobbs Gates guard the Oval. As long as men talk about cricket they will talk about the master.......

John Bull's First Job

Drilling and Burring By ALAN SILLITOE My sister was already at work, a pert fourteen- year-old know-all (as she seemed then) coming out of the sweet factory on Friday night......

Spectator's Notebook

WHEN we are rejoicing be- cause of the birth of a child 2,000 years ago there is something especially shocking about people be- ing choked by the sea or shattered on our roads.......

Who's For President?

With the end of the political truce after Presi- dent Kennedy's murder, and the coming of an election year, the pollsters in the United States are going to town. On the......