20 MARCH 1936, page 15

Consulate

By ERIC WALROND T O the dusky throng silently gathered in the waiting room Leon Cabrol was the arbiter of life and death. He was the Consul's clerk. Clad in a pongee silk suit,......

:a Hundred Years Ago

" THE SPECTATOR," MARCH 19TII, 1836. The pressure of Parliamentary matter is lighter this week than usual, in" consequence of there having been, in technical phrase, " no House......

Marginal Comments

By ROSE MACAULAY. H OW various and multitudinous are the offences coin- -11 mitted by human kind against the laws that seek to regulate their actions ! In a London police court......