20 JULY 1934, page 6

The Anti-noise Campaign Will• Make Headway In Proportion...

crusaders show themselves alive to practical considerations. Motor-cars, of course, will be shot at, and with some reason. Noisy exhausts ought to be penalized whenever and......

The Royal Visit To Edinburgh Has Been An Unqualified Success

and there is a simplicity and compactness about the Palace of Holyroodhouse that gives the impression that the King and Queen are living more than ordinarily among their people.......

A Spectator's Notebook S Ir John Simon As Foreign...

have his critics. Sir John Simon as after-dinner or after- luncheon speaker can have none at all. Indeed in that role—leaving out of account the professional after-dinner......

Curiously Enough, While Abinger Was Engrossed With Its...

village. of Shere, not half a dozen miles away, was being entertained with the,all-but-premiem (the Gate Theatre at Dublin was actually first in the field) of a new comedy by......

I Have Seldom Been At A Luncheon Which Succeeded In

its friendly purpose so well as that given. to Mr. Ernest Rhys on his seventy-fifth birthday_ one day this week. All the world, almost in the literal sense of the term, knows of......

The School Age An Opportunity Missed

L ORD HALIFAX'S statement in the House of Lords on the school-leaving age can scarcely be said to be disappointing, for it was generally understood that the Government at......

Abinger Did Its Pageant Last Saturday Extremely, Well....

M. Forster, experimenting confidently in a medium new (I believe) to him, worked a thread of continuity with marked success through a series of what might otherwise have been......