20 APRIL 1929, page 12

A Hundred Years Ago

TIIE SPECTATOR, APRIL 18TH, 1829. NEWS Or THE WF.R17.. On Wednesday, Mr. Peel introduced a new Police Bill for the Metropolis ; and made an elaborate exhibition of the......

The Theatre

[" PORGY." BY Du BOSE AND DOROTHY HEYWARD. AT HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.] LET us again salute Mr. C. B. Cochran as our sole surviving showman with anything significant to show. He......

Old Bailey Sessions.

Henry Hepburn was indicted for stealing a penknife. The article, when produced, appeared to be an instrument containing a pair of nail scissors, and a knife-blade. Mr. Sergeant......

The Court.

The splendour of the entertainments at Dublin Castle are des- cribed, in a Dublin letter, to " be quite amazing to the insular senses " of the worthy inhabitants of the Irish......

Art

THE NEW BURLINGTON GALLERIES. THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB.1 THE New English Art Club are holding their seventy-ninth exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, and it will remain......

Music

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE AMATEUR. SOME time ago, in a Spectator article, I remarked that the new laity of music is falling into that dangerous habit of mind, the sanctification of......