5 JUNE 1926, page 11

An American Friend Who Has Been Staying At An Old-

fashioned London hostelry popular with transatlantic visitors said to me, " I do not mind about running water in the rooms and other so-called improvements. What I enjoy over......

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AUGUSTUS JOHN [TIIE NEw CHENTIL GALLERIES, CHELSEA.] MR. AUGUSTUS Jowl possesses more natural talent than any other painter in England. It might almost be said that he was born......

It Is Not Only In England That Greater Efforts Are

being made to provide for American and other oversea visitors. An Irish friend sends me a copy of the Irish Tourist, which under good auspices is trying to attract more visitors......

Owing To The Coal Crisis And The General Strike, The

West -India Conference, whose deliberations have • just closed, has not received as much attention in the London Press as it deserved. Never before have the British West......

* * * • I See That The Medical Officer

of Health for the City of London has reported on the " damage and nuisance " caused by the four thousand pigeons in this town of ten million men and women. He says they cannot......