5 SEPTEMBER 1931, page 12

A Penny Of Observation

ARMADO : How hast thou purchased this experience I Mom : By my penny of observation. (Love's Labour's Lost.) COINING. A movement is on foot—a safe phrase, that, for what......

But Why ? What Is The Charm Of Old Newspapers

? Perhaps it is by virtue of an unwonted helplessness that they attract, like the millionaire in need of change, or the efficiency expert who has missed his train. The popular......

Bentilui On Bowring.

Our article on the Public Accounts of France has attracted the notice of the illustrious JEREMY BENTHAM, who has adopted the somewhat roundabout course of addressing an epistle......

Cinema More Crime People Have Begun To Write To The

papers saying that we are getting too many films about gangsters, which is perfectly true. Hollywood knows a good theme when it sees one, and seldom sees anything else for some......

A Hundred Years Ago

THE " SPECTATOR," SEPTEMBER 3RD, 1831. THE KING AND ass COURT. Next week will break in upon the sober routine of peaceful enjoyment which their Majesties have indulged in for......

Mr. Leigh Hunt And The " Tatler."

The Tatler is a daily publication, carried on by Mr. LEIGH HUNT ; and shows in the pleasantest manner in the world how much men of talent might do for us in the way of wisdom......

Old Newspapers.

For our part, though we read the newspapers every day, we get very little enjoyment out of them. We read them from a sense of duty, and we find them dull. It will be urged that......

The Iitiiitarian System.

The skeleton of Corder, the murderer, has been placed in $ recess of the Museum of the Suffolk Tnfirmary, Bury St. Edmund's. It is covered with a glass case, beneath which is a......

But Perhaps All This Is More Briefly And More Cogently

put by the old Thibetan proverb : " A dead louse is better......