5 APRIL 1935, page 6

Dr. Pearce Higgins Has Not Long Survived His Resignation Of

his Cambridge professorship, the duties of which he was, I believe, to have discharged till the end of next term. At any rate his successor,. Dr. McNair, begins his lectures in......

When Officials Should Advertise

N OT many years ago the Post Office came under a fire of criticism for failing to conduct its affairs in t he spirit of a great business concern out to push its undertakings.......

I Was A Little Shocked To Hear A B.b.c. Announcer

on Tuesday pronounce jaures as a monosyllable. I have heard the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia called " beans " (not by the B.B.C.)—but " Jore ? JANL7Si......

It Seems A Minor Tragedy That A Vessel Like The

'Mauretania,' which can still do the Atlantic crossing in less than six days, to the admiration of all her passengers, should today be on her way to the ship-breakers' yard. She......

Sir Arthur Steel-maitland, Like Mr. Amery, Mr. Churchill...

Eustace Percy, was among the former Con- servative Ministers crowded out of the present Cabinet to make room for the Liberal and National Labour members. Freedom from office......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE recent appointment of Mr. Lionel Fielden to take charge of broadcasting in India draws attention to a rather interesting situation. As things are, broadcasting in India,......

Archdeacon Hunkin, Who Goes Back To The Town Of His

birth as Bishop, is a convert from another Church. He was born and bred a Cornish Methodist, was educated under Dr. Barber at the best-known of Methodist founda- tions, the Leys......

I Am Anxious To Think The Best Of The Dean

and Chapter of Hereford, but they make it very difficult. On Sunday afternoon—in common, I observed, with a good many other persons of godly aspect—I made a hopeful and......