1 JULY 1949, page 13

The American Language

By DAME UNA POPE-HENNESSY N OAH WEBSTER, the famous lexicographer, who published his American Speller in 1823, was visited shortly afterwards by an English traveller, Captain......

Mime And Pantomime

By NIGEL TANGYE A Tthe far end of a narrow alley off the Boulevard du Mont- parnasse is the miniature Theatre de Poche. Its three or four dozen hard polished chairs rest......