6 JANUARY 1939, page 10

Herr Hitler's Acquisition Of Vermeer's Well-known...

in the Studio " is interesting on financial as well as artistic grounds. The picture was the property of the Czernin family and hung in Vienna. As to its value, I read that "......

An Incident With An Interesting Bearing On The Important...

of the relation between advertisers in daily papers and editorial policy is mentioned in the World's Press News. Plans for a £5o,000 advertising plan for the radio industry were......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE " New Party " meeting at the Caxton Hall on Wednesday evening was by all accounts something between a disaster and a farce, and the new party may, I imagine, be written off......

" We Guarantee Too,000 Sale Of This, The Novel Of

1 939." Publisher's Announcement.- - . Publisher's Announcement.- - . Even if we have to buy =up the last 9op0cv ourselves, presumably. , . Jams.......

It Is Curious How Difficult It Sometimes Is To Get

what are quite clearly matters of fact, not opinion, established and accepted. Interested in some recent remarks on the connexion between garrotting and flogging, I consulted......

Under An Act Of Parliament Any Unregistered Person ....

holding himself out as being prepared to practise, dentistry, renders himself liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding Ltoo ; that is as it should be. A - Czech refugee,......

In A Friendly Letter In Another Column The Editors Of

Who's Who suggest that what they call a more drastic rationalising, and what I should call (with great respect) a more rational editing of that indispensable volume " would......

An Educational Revolution

T HE Spens Report on Secondary Education has been received with general approval. Indeed, there could hardly be any other immediate reaction to a document which, the fruit of......