27 JANUARY 1939, page 10

The Return Of Tie Star-gazers

By W. E. WOOSNAM-JONES I T is now well over two centuries since Swift, in the Bickerstaff Papers, launched his famous attack upon John Partridge, the notorious Almanack Maker,......

The Democrat's Faith

By WILLIAM BROCK* I N an age when it may be necessary to defend democracy, it is not less necessary to define it. This definition must take the form of separating externals from......