Childhood

BY HUGH WALPOLE. A BACHELOR has, of course, no right to think that he knows anything about children. There is the sentimental bachelor who says that he loves children, the......

Government In Our Day.

" One of the difficulties of the Government," says Wednesday's Times, " is that all the Standing Committees already have Bills before them." Three of the measures responsible......

Thomas Becket's Cup.

Another famous relic is to be sold at Christie's on May 12th. It is the ivory cup from which Thomas Becket is said to have drunk, in a silver setting of some centuries later.......

Police Publicity

We are accustomed in these days to the idea that public departments should prevent undesirable error, by issuing to the Press a careful and precise statement of the facts with......

Spectabilia

FLANNELLED FOOLS The Public School System has many critics. Most of these will be delighted by the decision of the head-master of Mill Hill School to allow his pupils, if they......

Direct Subscribers Who Are Changing Their Addresses Are...

notify the SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY OR MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.......

The Zoo Again.

. Elsewhere in these -columns we note with satisfaction that, with luck, it will soon be possible to go to the cinema on Sunday without breaking the law. Industrial civilization......