The Bog-trotter Dusk Was Falling When I Once More Passed
the ruined castle, crossed the footbridge and splashed back to the car, From a sky the colour of old armour snow-flakes continued their leisurely but purposeful descent. Small......
Infanticide Anybody Can Coin A New Word; The Difficulty Is
to get it into circulation. I seem to have had more luck than I deserve with " cow-pocked," an epithet which, with rather more help than usual from the printer, I applied a......
Pot-shot At A Proconsul Vindictive Seems To Me The Only
epithet with which to describe the attack made on General Sir Gerald Templer by Mr. Victor Purcell in this month's Twentieth Century. Mr. Purcell, a former Principal Adviser on......
How Long Can Germany Wait?
I N this journal it has always been recognised and asserted that the unification of Germany and the re-emergence of a German armed force are -simply a matter of time. Anyone can......
What Did They Look Like ?
The first two volumes of the officla.1 history of the last war have been conspicuously well done, but I think it a pity that more imagination is not used in the choice of......
For All I Know, Mr. Purcell May Be Correct In
this contention; but I wish he had found it possible to write more objectively of a man whom he clearly very much dislikes. F rom a colourful article in Time Magazine (not, I......
A Spectator's Notebook
HE Gatling's jammed and the Colonel's dead I " wrote Kipling; and though he, with his schoolboy relish for technical terminology, might have been just as happy Writing " The......
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