A Spectator's Notebook
T HE New Year's Honours, thanks largely to the inclusion of a number of persons who helped to make the Festival of Britain what it was, are rather more interesting than usual.......
I Had Always Had A Certain Feeling Of Association With
Maxim Litvinov since his family and mine shared a charwoman when he was living in the Hampstead Garden Suburb during the First War, and I used sometimes to walk down to the Tube......
I Have Been Favoured With Further Particulars About...
Chartered Seminary of the International Free Protes- tant Episcopal University. A new university, if I mistake not, swims into our ken—fully chartered, though chartered by whom......
The Bertram Mills Circus Is Very Well Advised Not To
replace the Globe of Death performance in its programme after last week's deplorable fatality. But why was the performance ever there at all ? Of course those turns which cause......
Federal Or Confederal ?
T HE Six-Power talks at Paris last week brought the idea of a European Army nearer realisation, but it would be difficult to say precisely how much nearer. Informa- tion about......
Mr. Nigel Nicolson Is Very Much To Be Congratulated On
his selection as Conservative candidate for Bournemouth East (out of, I believe, about 800 would-be candidates), for it means that, failing - a political revolution, he will in......
Mr. Gilbert Frankau Seems To Be Making A- Vast Amount
of pother about the failure of the Royal Society of Literature to elect his friend Mr. Dennis Wheatley to a Fellowship of that body. What seems to have happened is that......
If Anyone Would Like A Little Further Information About The
Spartan custom of exposing children I can offer it—on the authority of a fifteen-year-old examinee in a certain public school : ... The children were brought up very ahead of......