1 DECEMBER 1928, page 12

A Hundred Years Ago

THE SPECTATOR, NOVEMBER 29TH, 1828. DISTRESS OF THE HACKNEY-COACH PROPRIETORS; This body, it appears, are suffering much from what they call the " undue monopoly, allowed to a......

Poetry

Dahlias DAHLIAS you come too late, the mirth is over, Do you not see the pageant has passed by ? Gone is the music, lover fled with lover, And the dark garden hushed beneath the......

The Civil Servant

WHEN I am dead no doubt they'll drape the hearse I ride in with red tape, and docket me with miles and miles of other " Please Bring Forward " files. And he who keeps the......

The Theatre

[" A HUNDRED YEARS OLD." BY SERAFfN AND JOAQUIN ALVAREZ QUINTERO. AT THE LYRIC, HAMMERSMITH. " ALL GOD'S CHILLUN." BY EUGENE O'NEILL. AT THE GATE THEATRE STUDIO.] IT will be......

The Black Ice

" T HE Black Ice," as they call the tarred motor road in Ireland, goes stretching endless before us over the great plain. We are going at forty miles an hour. It is a concession......