When A Company Publishing As Many Well-known Journals As The
Hulton Press finds itself in the position in which the Hulton Press is the matter is of some public interest. The best-known of the Hulton Press publications is Picture Post,......
One Day In 1739 Mr. Hogarth, Who Painted Pictures, Was
visiting Mr. Samuel Richardson, who wrote novels, when, as he was talking, " he perceived a person standing at a window in the room, shaking his head, and rolling himself about......
The Shorter Oxford Dictionary (1933) Did Not, After All, Say
the last word on "tabloid." The last word had, so to speak, been said first, by the Oxford New English Dictionary—the twelve-volume giant, from which there is no appeal—in 1919.......
I Find This Fancy That Has Taken The Ministry Of
Labour for flinging about pound notes, almost like pool-promoters, a little odd. The Ministry wants (as basis for a new cost-of- living index) to know what every member of......
Prices Up Or Down ?
T HIS is the season of the year at which the convention —always a little difficult to sustain—that economics is the exclusive business of professional economists patently breaks......
A Spectator's Notebook
N OTHING said or done now will bring Derek William Bentley back to life. But nothing I have heard said or seen written shakes my conviction that Bentley . ' ought still to be......
In Reading That Most Delightful Work " Period Piece "
I note that the writer, Mrs. Raverat, quotes the well-known mot of Thompson, the Master of Trinity : " The time that Mr. X can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes......
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