7 APRIL 1933, page 6

Of The Crop Of Anecdotes That Gathered Round The Jam

Sahib's personality none can, by the nature of things, be very new. Two are perhaps worth recalling. One of them—the second—was in fact new to me. The other, which bears on its......

There Is Not Much To Be Said For The Letter

signed by German correspondents in' London, expressing the conviction that " the British public is receiving a dis- torted view of the great events in Germany." The first and......

I Note A Rather Marked Tendency Among The Boat-race...

to write almost as if the honours this year belonged to Oxford. That seems a perverse view, except on the assumption that to finish anything less than three lengths behind......

A Few Weeks Ago I Mentioned The Perplexity Expressed By

certain American subscribers to The Spectator at finding references to the paper's extravagant award of a . guinea prize for the .first correct solution of the weekly crossword......

A Spectator's Notebook M R. H. G. Wells, I Understand, Is

hard at work on a history of the next two hundred years or so. To be accurate he has, I believe, gal° about 2100 A.D., so far, and it must be a, little difficult to know just......

Last Week The Spectator Reviewed A Novel By Mr. Alan

Porter. It was a short review and I can quote it in full. Thus : "'Have you over heard of the noble young parvenu who feels himself' unworthy of an even nobler girl, and who......

There Were Three Links At Any Rate Between Lord Chelmsford

and the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar—India, cricket and the League of Nations. Curiously enough the same applies to Lord Willingdon too. Each of the three men was a University and......