6 OCTOBER 1944, page 10

Marginal Comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON S I walked down to Westminster last week, on the morning of the Prime Minister's great speech upon the war situation, I found myself wondering how he would......

He Was Not Exceptionally Well Born, He Was Not Exceptionally

handsome. if, as seems probable, the Isaac Oliver miniature is the most objective portrait of him which we possess, he must have been a somewhat stocky young man, with a large......

When We Read The Accounts Of His Burial At St.

Paul's, when we examine the thirty-four engravings which Thomas Lam published of that elaborate ceremonial, we find it difficult to account for the adoration accorded to Philip......

It Is A Strange Coincidence, As Many Have Already Noted,

that this small Dutch town should twice in our history have struck the note of national mourning. It was in Arnhem, in the house of Mrs. Gruithuissens, :hat on October 17th,......

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I wish, indeed, that some chance would lead to the discovery of the Veronese portrait of Philip Sidney which startled Languet by its extreme "youthfulness." It may well have......