Princess Lieven, Who Long Doubled The Parts Of A Social
butterfly and a shrewd Russian agent, would not seem to be a very suitable friend for a pious Scottish Tory nobleman like the Lord Aberdeen who led us into the Crimean War. But......
Had Professor Robertson Flourished A Century Ago,...
have been called the Dismal Science. As expound,.1 by him, it is a tongue-twisting, headaching, brain-racking science but emphatically not dismal. To venture on this collection......
Down The Garden Path Again, This Time With The Author
of God Is My Adventure, in the Sussex of 1939. Of No Importance (a daring but some will think justified title) is a diary covering about nine months, during which the......
A Virtuous Widow And Others. Edited With An Introduction...
Carswell. (Hodge 6s.) THE jacket of this volume is a clout to be cast at first sight. That done, the book announces itself as " A Gallery of Types." Actually it is a collection......
Report On Competition No. 35
ON the assumption that the Light Brigade has by now been transformed into a mechanised unit, the usual prizes were offered for a poem (of not more than 24 lines) commemorating a......
The Spectator Competitions No. 37 Prizes Of Book Tokens For
£2 2S. and LI is. are offered for the most amusing lists of original " schoolboy's howlers " perpetrable through misunderstandings of any five of the following sentences and......
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