The Boat Race Is Over And Already Half-forgotten, But The
result— a victory by ten lengths by a crew that was generally expected to be beaten—is so striking that a word of comment is still relevant. The critics seem to be uncertain......
National Service
T HE long-expected debate on the National Service Bill in the House of Commons this week was in some ways surprising. It was always clear that, with the Conservative Party......
A Spectator's Notebook
VV " E do some things very badly. The opening of the exhibition of French tapestry at the Victoria and Albert Museum ought to have been a great occasion, for France has sent us......
The Next Issue Of That Admirable And Unique Quarterly The
Countryman will, almost incredibly, be a Countryman undirected by Mr. J. W. Robertson Scott. After founding The Countryman twenty years ago, putting into it not what he thought......
The Editors, I Gather, Are Going On The Air Again—on
Tuesday evenings, as a temporary change from the Brains Trust — beginning on April 22nd. Very wisely, as I think, the B.B C. are starting with jus. new blood. The old firm......
The Prime Minister's Visit To Toynbee Hall On Monday Brought
together a varied and interesting assembly of old residents—M.P.s, Civil Servants, lawyers and many others, a few of the veterans going back to the days of the first warden,......
I Have Always Felt That The Prophets Of Ill Who
have for years been predicting disaster to this country from a falling birth-rate have assumed too readily that the birth-rate would go on falling for ever. It appears that, in......
A Cursory Study Of Mr. Eric Partridge's Most Interesting...
and Abusage " has perhaps made me hypercritical (a reprehensible fault) ; or perhaps it has quickened my perception of strange English. At any rate, I observed on Sunday (in the......
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Whether the current issue of The Practitioner (7s. 6d.), devoted as a special number to "Sex and its Disorders," has made that choice of subject with any reference to the......
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