7 NOVEMBER 1952, page 5

I Have Read With Interest A Notice In The Scotsman

that " the Rev. Countess Mayo, D.D.," is " resuming " on the subject of Truth in Action in the present week in a hall in Edinburgh. More light on this would be welcome. Women......

It Must Be Wonderful To Be On Christian-name Terms With

first-class cricketers and footballers. Indeed if you can't be on Christian-name terms with Royalty—not everyone can—this, no doubt, is the next best thing. Hitherto University......

One Passage In Lord Samuel's Own Speech On Monday Con-

awed a phrase that was intentionally or unintentionally ignificant. For forty years, he said, we have had on the rone " men of high character and prudent judgement." Why orty?......

A Spectator's Notebook

AKEN by itself the drop in the Labour majority at Cleve- land meant little.. When the increase in the Government majority at Wycombe is combined with it a definite trend begins......

I Should Like To Write An Essay, But Shall In

fact only write a paragraph, on the reading habits of the middle classes, or a large section of them. Not long ago I happened to stay at four different hotels on consecutive......

The Second Lap

0 N Tuesday, the Government, with its slender majority, which the noteworthy Wycombe result has not impaired, entered on its second session, which means in effect its second......

I No One Could Better Deserve Honour Than Lord Samuel

did the tribute paid him by his fellow Liberals on Monday. The fact that he was first elected to the House of Commons fifty years ago does not mean that he has sat for fifty......