12 MAY 1950, page 20

Cup Final

SIR.—Mr. Mallalieu's youthful imagination of what happened in the good old days has been running away with him. Marylebone Station was not opened till 1897, when the old......

In The Garden Catalogues May Be Very Attractive Things In

themselves. One of the best is the two-shilling catalogue issued by the Cambridge University Press of the flower-books exhibited by the National Book League, and organised by......

Arabs And The West

SIR,--1 venture to think that, after the letters from Professor Gibb and Mr. Hillelson, the views of an Arab will not be out of place in your columns. No reasonable Arab ever......

The Covenanters

SIR,—The seemingly high proportion of Covenant-signatories to Cale- donians is partly explained by the fact that the organisers took consider- able pains, including the......

Maytime Threats

From Chaucer to our latest Poet Laureate May has been more generally praised for its spring and summer charms than any month ; but the chief attribute of its opening fortnight......

Lea And Gade The Most Famous Trout-streams Belong To The

West and some South and Midland shires ; but the fisherman's case is being fought out most saliently and definitely in Hertfordshire. The best known of its streams, thanks in......

Marx On Russian Imperialism

SIR,—The whole world is at the present moment confronted with the policy of ruthless Russiaexpansionism and annexations. This resembles very remarkably the " Ilussian projects......

Country Life

WAR seems to bring out some of the most gentle and pleasing of English characteristics. Within a German prison camp Mr. John Buxton, organising his companions (sancta cohors......

"vie ,pectator," Aar 11111, 1850

ROYAL ACADEMY: STORY PICTURES FOR some years the distinguishing power of English art, beyond the province of landscape-painting, has shown itself in the treatment of what we......