4 MAY 1951, page 5

It Will Be Interesting To See What Effect The Increase

in the price of London morning and evening newspapers has on their sales. That it will affect them is inevitable, and whether the extra halfpenny is going to cover the loss is......

Charles Wesley 'rote Over 6,500 Hymns (so It Is Said

; I sup-1 pose they have been counted), including many of the most notable in the English language, lived and died a member of the, Church of England, and was buried in......

In His Special Festival Number (which Costs 2s.) Mr. Punch'

has taken a bold step. To reproduce the best of the past is to challenge dangerous comparisons with the present ; on a subject" so delicate I venture no judgement. But to glance......

Mr. Bevan's Constituents, It Is Reported In The Daily Press,

when he addressed them at Ebbw Vale on Sunday evening greeted him with the singing of " Guide me, 0 Thou Great Jehovah." Comment would not be impossible. JANus.......

I Have Been Watching The Daily Worker's Struggle For...

with interest, and not entirely without admiration, for some time. What ultimate resources the Communist organ has behind it I do not profess to know. But it depends on......

Persia's Road To Ruin

HERE are three parties to the dispute over the fate of Persia's oil: the Persian Government, the British Govern- ment and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. It is the Persian......

A Spectator's Notebook R. Churchill's "lion - Hearted...

is an Admirable phrase for a Conservative Albert Hall rally, but any Ministers of any Party would be l ▪ i ▪ m ▪ pets as long as they thought it suited their interests better to......

I Wish I Smoked, For Then I Could Stop Smoking,

and be able in consequence to buy various things—chiefly books— which I don't feel justified in affording now. That very pregnant observation is the result of chancing on this......