Sir John Wilson, Keeper Of The Queen's Philatelic...
been defending the new 2d. and lid. stamps against critics. I find it astonishing that any critics of the stamps should exist. I have licked stamps in six successive reigns, and......
When Anyone, After Failing To Get Satisfaction From...
Ogilvie's Dictionaries or the Encyclopaedia Britannica, turns to me I naturally swell a little. But we must move cautiously. I am asked for the true derivation of Hogmanay.......
The Deaths Of The Bishop Of Lichfield And The Headmaster
of Harrow within twenty-four hours of each other are a grievous blow. I had known the Bishop rather the longer and rather the better of the two, but it would be hard to say......
Have You Been Solicited On Behalf Of An Organisation Called
" The International University Society " ? Resistance is recommended. I gather that the names of Sir Ernest Barker, Professor T. J. Haarhoff, of Witwatersrand'University and Dr.......
Three Men
I NCOMPARABLY the most important men in the Western World today are Mr. Churchill, General Eisenhower and Dr. Adenauer. It is sad that France can produce no one to put in the......
Glimpses Into The Past Have Their Interest. I Happened This
week to be turning over the files of The Spectator for no more than twenty years ago (we can do six times as well as that when we try; we shall soon) and came on two items that......
A Spectator's Notebook
I T was Philip Guedalla, I think, who said that history never repeats itself, but historians always do. To say that history never repeats itself may be going a little far—it......
Flies To Discuss Rearmament Daily Mail Headline.
Defence against spiders, no doubt. JANUS.......
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