Harley Granville-barker Was A Versatile Man Of Great...
and personal charm, with gifts extending far beyond the theatre. As chairman of a committee, for example, he was brilliant, com- bining as he did extreme patience and tact with......
The Controversy, For I Am Afraid It Is Developing Into
that, about a memorial to the Brownings, has its nice points. If it is a question simply of commemorating the marriage of the poets, then St. Marylebone Parish Church clearly......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE Tradeston by-election result confirms the impression that in spite of the reasonable expectation of a normal reaction after Labour's sweeping victory of last year the......
School Holidays Are A Vexed Question, And I Have No
desire to vex it further. With the complaint of some secondary schoolmasters that their holidays are being shortened as part of a "levelling-down" process resulting from the......
What Seems A Grave Anomaly In The Family Allowance Scheme
was disclosed at the Toynbee Hall Juvenile Court last Monday. The mother of a boy charged there—and of six other children—was shown to be receiving 33s. widow's pension and 31s.......
Impressions Of Post-war Cornwall—driven Through From...
End and driven about so far as petrol permitted— are various. Road surfaces surprisingly good, but the narrowness and sinuosity of the lanes disconcerting ; the main streets of......
Lord Beveridge, Who Was Born In Bengal, Is Turning From
socio- logy and economics and writing a book—almost a novel of family life in India seventy years ago—about his parents and their home.......
World-wide Fifth Column
EEK by week, indeed day by day, - evidence flows in from V V every Continent to emphasise the fact that the single dominat- ing problem in the world to-day is Russia. At Paris......
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