17 AUGUST 1951, page 4

* * * The Moment The Bishop Of Lichfield's Letter

about the Boscobel Oak celebration (to commemorate the escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester) appeared in The Times it was obvious that the Cromwellians would be......

Having Indicated Last Week That There Was More To Say

about the Nazarene College (Tottenham, London, N.15), which gives diploma-degrees in Psychotherapy, Metaphysics and Associated Sciences (are psychotherapy and metaphysics......

A Spectator 's Notebook

I AVING been abroad when most of the reviews of Mr. Churchill's latest volume appeared, I am not sure how much attention has been paid to the passage in which he deals with the......

Are More And More Books Being Written Every Year ?

The question is inspired by the statement that whereas, when the Cambridge University Library—that striking piece of modern architecture across the river—was completed in 1934,......

Youth In Berlin

T HE reports of the Communist Youth Rally now in pro- gress in East Berlin provide food for serious reflection. In spite. of various hitches, inevitable where so vast an......

The Latest Number Of The American Journal Newsweek Con-...

a paragraph alleging that "Britain is now in a position to test its first atom bomb in Australia." That may or may not be so ; I don't profess to know ; and if I did know I......

Readers Of The Striking Article " Can Machines Think ?

" by Dr. M. V. Wilkes in last week's Spectator will hardly be surprised at the official announcement that " the Trustees of the Nuffield . Foundation have made a grant of......