4 AUGUST 1939, page 6

A Week Or Two Ago The Zoo Had In Its

possession two Black Widow spiders, the bite of which is fatal to human beings. Since then, I understand, the pair have had issue to the number of about fifty, and the young are......

It Is Being Said In Aeronautical Circles Which Ought To

be well-informed that Italian aircraft production is almost at a standstill. Shortage of metals has caused a change-over to wooden frames, but apparently the Government is......

One Of The Attractions At The Liberal Summer School At

Cambridge this week is stated in the daily Press to be " an expedition to Grantchester." This is very disturbing. In- trepidity is always admirable, but Liberal life and limb......

The Publication Of Photographs Showing The Bishop Of...

a barrel-organ in the chief city of his diocese (for the benefit of local hospital funds) does not seem quite the happiest prelude to the translation of Dr. Fisher to the See of......

Book Clubs And Their Ways Are An Absorbing Subject Of

study. They may be said to consist of Mr. Gollancz's Left Book Club and the rest—most, though not all, the rest owing origin and harbourage to the well-known booksellers Messrs.......

So Brecon And Radnor Adds One More To The Relatively

short list of seats lost by the Government since the last General Election, and again it is a drop in the Government poll, much more than the rise in the Opposition candidate's,......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HERE would be little profit in trying to nail down consistently the numberless mis-statements of German propagandists—such an assertion, for example, as this, from a booklet......

Government, Press And People

IR SAMUEL HOARE made a full, frank and satis- factory statement last Friday on the present work of the Foreign Office publicity department and on the preparations for the......