The Balance of Nature speculations about the effects of myxomatosis in forms ot wild life other than u'rbbits are for the most part gloomy; the oily v'aguly -cheerful forecast...

Rain, Rain, Go To The Ukraine - Having long nurtured a firm, bucolic conviction that the everI increasing ghastliness of the weather is due to our ill-advised dabblings in...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK IFRIEND of mine who, though not a politician, spends . A a good deal of time in the Palace of Westminster has ,i. two suggestions about MP's pay which...

"ooJWOad tle' Job : *tgh weQfte1 talk about agriculturi.,a an iiidustry, it, . at the big shdws that we see'the industrialists en masse. - ek*, at the Royal, I thought some of...

,9 il ng norse Iritis0h re both fortunate and singular in their capacity a man like Lord Ismay for granted. Fqw, officers at can have had a more exacting war or, carried more...

II I` Politiiansad' Philosophers' I Politics and Opinion in the Nineteenth Century. By John Bowls. '(Cape. 2Ss.) THE sense of literary-situation that ~might, for'example,...

Come on and Stomp I i, ? ?;.(i , ?' "I . -. . I % A I Play as I Please. By Huniphrey Lyttlton. . (MacGibbon and Kee. X ' .15s.),.. . . :I;orthq average 'intellectual,' jazz...

MUSIC and OPERA Tmr Boyd Neel Orchestra's concert at Victoria 'and Albert Musuihe on Stit evening was-conducted by Malcolm Am whose new Sinfonietta was in the prograN When it...

04 RE~VISION * and KA DIO '¢ Wii: at the end of the Paris programme in, xE~loPcan: Television we faded out g a J4,p of loversstrugging unelisily and pseiaps 41f'eonaciouSly to...

. I .I I I " t, :'' . ART ltallans SIxNOREa GioRoIo MORAWI is no stranger to this country. However, there will be those who are maaling his acquaintance fdr the. flrst time at...

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' 'Tiame' Ra I. 1Hwvcor much i tried1 don't thiftlk could eved come. to b* fond of groy rats. I mig~t t6 ' m ZakqA t Ofa sigle- ratge W t ,having 8een the 'dauM'P doe by thi...

Codliza %Ca~teasw ,S; , w.>, D - A: annual wtrningS'tht 'shbuld nht'! i: lgnqrcd is 'the Inormnntlon .that thle, Moth"is responsiblo for the. deil of good fruit'. IThe -.trpiU...

Countr Life I I EvERY year, unless it has been an exceptional season, one hears people 'complaining that there has been no summer. Things are not Oaht tbe' were in. the old...

WJih the fle . Thebees wpre active wben IV went l, '.ql losck at them. A st~edy hunvcaitie rom 6n.1@ colony), and I went a: little neate to lite, to them. Glvyco an hour oz two...

I THE JUGGERNAUTS SIR,-The juggernauts encountered by Mr. Anthony Hartley on the Birchington-Faver. sham road are but a fraction of those to be braved by a driver returning to...

BUGANDA SIR,--There has come from Uganda the suggestion. that 1 attacked the personal intege. rity of the Governor in the letter of min; which you published on June I1. I wold...

ELGAR SIR,-I am engaged, at the rcquest of Mrs. Ca.; Elgar Blakc, in the preparation of 4; biographical and critical study of her father,. the late Sir Edward Elgar. This whi...

NORTHERN IRELAND SIR,-No doubt, as Mr. Jobn' Megaw suggests, ,a competition to choose a tame for what was once the Irish Free State would produce an abundance of wit from your...

COAL ,R-Although there is a general awareness ongst the- public that all is not well in the 'Fatter of fuel supplies, your article of 'ily 2 is most timely and calls for some...

Poet's Notebook I I . - .,I I ?' .. I Miserly men dare not be poor. Depindent men are insecure. Not all men lose by every war. A louse may ride a tiger. From strings of...

T THEATRE We Must Kill Toni. By Ian Stuart Black. (Westminster.)- -East Lynne. (Sadler's -Moscow State Puppet Theatre. Wells.). I - tI.aSino.) MURDER is a joke that never...

CINEMA ~:,apIce Little Lady. (Gaumont.) --Th. -. Bandit. (CAmeo-Poly,) ,.So rigid are screen conventions one can wager s'entire fortune that if the heroine of a is a ballet...

,,Obscenity Case r. Rex Warner in last week's Spec~tator quoted a remark 0, about Tomn Brown at Oxford when it was first published h0 Sixties. In the book the hero carries a...

-AT WESTMINSTER B ACKBENCHERS were presented with a nice problem of timing this week: who would be first to get an answer from Sir Winston Churchill to questions about. his...

- Losers Iainst a Russian team consisting of eight of the world's 4 nasters,' wrote The Times Chess Correspondent, 'it I t surprising that Britain did not fare well.' That was...

-ongo Progress ,By, THOMAS HODGKIN' T$Izimnbumbula, Belgian Congo . F you superimposed a map of the Congo on a map of - Europe. and put Matadi oyer Bordeaux, you would find :...

-'a m'rt11r of t ie much-abtksed of statiftticiaoi Qor#n1.nt on the -letter D Smokingi Stitistiic anO Deth', pb4; last week. .The autiJoys o$ *e papora ioie htave said, imong...

I ; AN UNNECESSARY EVIL is SuI,---May I draw your attentionltou an inl te article under'this beading in your zii oJ U;ble 18? r. eferring .to the depy ad frozO "thel Anstitute...

SIR.-It 'is quite amazing the efforts vedole (presumably smokers) make to blind themselves an4 others to the signiftconce of the statistics pu~lished on smoking and cancer....

StR,'-or some diseases specific trotments are -Anown. which usually, though, 'not 4e04 ar )yf alwyv , are ,found to have a beheflncial effect 6n the patient. Does tbe fact that...

T;R~iwT4Jso'nkiinr as ~~~. . r S.'-MOKING, STATISTICS: -ND DEATH iSZR,-M.D. Cantab makes three statements to fillustrate the application of logic, as taught iJnh ambridge in...

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feel that M.D. Canatb's comments i, assodiatinx of, smoking and' lung /it xannot bo. allowed To pass unW*Ate of his refercnce to his eapty traing I. n; :jbgiji. he has OUarly...

?; As z - , I If: UF4AIbML4 * [E questfon suggested by th1e aboi titledrenitly rjcPed up with considerable vivacity in -t o tf ihI.penodIcsas and organs of news and...

i ' { : : ' 4?C F"z a@S X ho X X Conpton Mackenzie O N 1844 Sir James Graham.,the Home Secretary in Sir 1Robert PeelNs Conservative administration, acting under powers...

Company Notes By CUSTOS' THE rise in the gilt-edged market has set the equity share market -booming again and if we are to see a lower rate of I'Aterest many of the leading...

FINANCE ANl WINVESTMENT By NIQiOLAS DAVENPORT Twt Treasury apparently believes that the ilt-edged market will go up., This emerges from its latest conversion o'er-the second...

; Something in the Air V ltWet Pastg A Study in LlterAry Relationsbis. BY Dorothv . :Browster. (Allen & UnWin. 21s.) - ' i .1" 114 'i salteiyast aid'pOtent inspiration which...

-Autobiographie. Half-Term Report. By W~iliam Dlou 14ome. (Longmains.g i Slide Rule. By NeVil Shut. (Hinmann. 18L.) : '''I4"-"'{* 'My country, right or wrong 'J4pnot an...

F ~~~~~t~~~~O 1K S~~~~~~~ ~~~~ ~ ~ ~~~~~~TIEE1Z (i<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~2l Lockhart, Rescued By J. D. SCOTT T'1~ HAT ho was Scott's biographer and son-in-law: what else is...

Across Tibet Tibetan Journey. By George N. Patterson. (Faber & Faber. 1 5s.)- SON of a Scots miner, and trained as a medical missionary by the Plymouth Brethren, Mr....

New Novels $Iie Dwp Sleep. By Wright Morris. (Eyre & Spottiswoodc. 1 2s. 6d.) k , The Night of -the Hunter. By Davis Grubb. (Hamish Hamilton. ,zi l: lOs. 6d.) OttsDeath of...

Dodging the: Col'umn X :; IA n December the Select Committee ong Estieates d6liV iti, 4*iled1 and downetOearth vriticisms of ` Britainf defence ;nisatior. The, Home .Secretary'...

New Friends for Old oI ! - ?, i ?? April ."jI,.., , a 'Ine .Commons debate on British .jhformation Se 'Overseas failed to,',produce any satisfactory statemepf policy .xm -rthe...

.,,After Washington -, - V At II .. , , .. . S, Wehave to wait until -Mondg for Sir Winsons estatment sF tl^.*e; $ouse, of Cozurons on the Wasbiigten talks. Meao" while Qftilee...

- 1 . 1 . 1. . 1. I I I . I I 11 .? I I . , 11 . . I i. . . ?A Pti '""" , Th re foied me lnt, of Ienya issued on Sunay -a O i e a1 statempht Vf poitiy which promised, in teips...

The Tactless Truth , : It seems to have become risky in recent months for a' Western statesman to speak the truth in a blunt and obviousi, way. If he does so he is apt to bb...

WHAT HOPE FOR HANOI? HERE is something repellent about the idea of a resumption of full-scale meetings of the Geneva conference while the fate bf the French and Vidtnamesd...

-- U'NDERGRADUATE g Lotus-Eater ? RDy COLIN M. NEWEY kt . c, , (Pembroke College, Cambridge). T C7.7ELL me, what exactly do you do at Cambridge ?' The earnest entquiry -from...

A Festival in Lyons SY IAIN HAMILTON T T is just possible (for this is how the northern tourist in classical lands likes to- open his reflections) that the ; Romans of...

Bi*Er? i*a1oW'lmuru to Evgu hi By RL Dittort, 0a; vafty and -R. Ladibat (Allen '.l. Unin ) to tha th c tr was only human to rejoice that tho.; ,^quest of Everest was left to...

,i" Itook BlndbM 1600W1800. By Maurice CR<, , i, C g (Casc11. o5.: O d ; ) tPOR perhaps a century and a hair the brS,4k bef bookbinding found btn Osmo exprssion {Xin reland,...

The Problem of ritish Traffic ly JOHN ARLOTT I F the problem of road safety in Britain admitted of a simple :* solution, no doubt we would have found it by now. Even : Ad a...

,-; '1'-' I-present cIal situation is gtusomey familiar. Once * moire t-British public findi itself in, the cart--the coal ';' cart. We ha~e been in this predicament before....