2 AUGUST 1935, page 13

Winter . Sunrise

As flat as if some brushman of the skies Had, while men slept, upon' an azure ground Filled in the perfectness of Giotto's round With blood, for earth's unspeakable surprise And......

Marginal Comments

By ROSE MACAULAY R ATHER disappointingly, the new edition of the Highway Code leaves precisely as it found it the oddly anomalous legal position of that large host of......

A Hundred Years Ago

" THE SPECTATOR," Auov'si , 1ST, 1835. CONSEQUENCES OF REPEALING THE NEWSPAPER-TAX. TnE publication of the unstamped daily paper, which we noticed last week, has been......

A Chinese Holiday

By RALPH MORTON T HERE is nothing that a Chinese—be he peasant or workman or student—loves more than an excursion. It is not a picnic that lie wants. He has a practical view of......