Ibsen Also Ran

It is as a student of English folkways rather than as a patron of the drama that I salute the much-publicised production of The Frog al the Scala Theatre, in aid of charity.......

Royal Borough

" Et puffs vOus prendrez," I said firmly into the telephone. " le train que part a onze heures vingt pour Reading." "Pardon?" After long sojourns, first in Tibet and then in the......

Another Archer-shee Case ?

I imagine that most people cannot help feeling. any more than I can, that Admiral Sir Dudley North has been shabbily treated by the Admiralty. He was relieved of his , post as......

' Paul Crum'' Very Few People Can Have Heard Of

Roger Pettiward, an e xhibition of whose pictures is being held at Eton on the rourth of June. His drawings in Punch (in whose current dumber ' Fougasse ' analyses with much......

A Spectator 's Notebook

I N 1951 57 per cent. of the population of Western Germany thought they were worse off than they had been a year ago and 12 per cent. thought they were better off; the corres-......

Tory Intellectuals

LEVEN months ago, there appeared in the Spectator a leading article called " Ideas and Tories." It made three main points. The first was that, for the Conserva- tive Party,......

The Inanity Stakes

The following are extracts from the blurbs of two books announced for publication by the same firm. Students are invited to deduce from the words in italics the principal......