12 FEBRUARY 1954, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

IFFICULT though it may be to conceive of a Suffragette movement in reverse, something very like it has been going on for years all over Soviet Central Asia, where many - of the......

T He Tate Gallery, According To A Correspondent, Is Not The

n e ,tuY institution of its kind where odd things sometimes happen. aoine months ago he went to see an important show of C onstables at the Victoria and Albert. He found that......

Socialist Conservatism

0 end his version of the famous episode in which the Romans of the decline were obliged to scrap their pre- conceptions about the invaders, the Alexandrian poet . .. they say......

Tongue-twister One Sprat Which One Rather Hopes Will...

the whale's throat arrived this week from America in a pedestrian book called How Russia Makes War, by Raymond L. Garthoff (George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 25s.). It is......

The Dunce Newbolt, Not Kipling, Wrote: "the Gading's...

the colonel's dead.' We shall, in all probability, never know how heavy a toll the mail van robbers took of letters calling attention to my hideous mistake; only 53 have got......

A Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To The English

Language sounds an impeccable idea, but I can't help feeling that Sir Compton Mackenzie and his fellow-crusaders are L ilting at the wrong set of windmills. It is not the......