T4 The Forties"

Sia,—Mr. Young's main grievance, amongst a number of distortions and misrepresentations, expressed in his review of my book The Forties. appears to be )hat I give a "West-End "......

Country Life

I suppose everybody this month has been giving some thought to the personality of mountains. The disasters in the Alps have dwarfed even man's inhumanity to man. The long......

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Christianity And War

SIR. —Much of the content of the Spectator is devoted nowadays to the consideration of how best to prepare for the next war. Why is it that it does not occur to anybody that war......

The Mind Of The Chinese

SIR,—Mr. Thompson's argument appears to be that, because the Chinese have long memories, having once attempted an invasion of Japan seven hundred years ago they are bound to try......

In The Garden After That Excitement I Am Too Breathless

to attend to the garden this week, except to seek assurance that my transported yew hedge looks none the worse for its removal ; and to remark that in a friend's garden over at......

Tally Ho Ancient And Modern Came Into Amusing Conflict The

other day, and I had a good view of it from my study-window, which faces across the valley from the brow of a mid-Weald hill. Disturbed by cries, the tooting of a tin trumpet,......