It Would Be Hard To Think Of A Happier Expe- ,
dient in connexion with geography lessons than the. arrangement (described at a meeting of the Geographical Association on Wednesday) whereby a particular tramp steamer is......
The Claims Of A National Theatre
THERE is always a conspicuous gap in public life 1 at this season of the year. Parliament is not sitting ; the Universities are in vacation ; the schools on holiday. A few......
Disturbing News Reaches Me About That Hardest Worked, Of All
classical tags Tempora mutantur, nos et mutantur in illis. Everyone knows it as the most familiar of Horatian lines. Did not that greatest of living Horatians, Dr. T. E. Page,......
No One, I Imagine, Is Qualified To Assess The Intrinsic
value of the collection of Chinese and Far Eastern art. treasures acquired by the British Museum and Victoria' and Albert Museum from Mr. George Eumorfopoulos. What is certain......
The Announcement Of A 75 Per Cent. Dividend By ,
Vauxhall Motors, after 14 years with no dividend at all, is one of many evidences of the uniform prosperity of the motor-car industry in this country. Cars are being poured out......
* * I Notice In One Or Two Obituary Notices
of Cardinal Bourne references to his emphatic denunciation of the General Strike in 1926. That, of course, is a matter of history, but I believe the Cardinal-Archbishop's......
It Must Be A Little Irritating To Each New Recipient
of the Garter to have the classical comment on that decoration quoted for his benefit ; so I refrain from quoting it. But with the greatest respect in the world for the latest......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE New Year's Honours list is more calculated to inspire meditation on the principle of honours in general than on the award of these honours in particular. It is a prosaic......
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