A Spectator's Notebook
I N case anyone is in danger of forgetting what a beguiling institution the human race is, I summarise some reports of its recent behaviour; they all appeared in the same paper......
Siren Songs Most Of The Advertisers In The New Yorker
seem to go on the assumption that it is read by relatively sophisticated Americans. There is no harm in the British Travel Association departing from this premise, and trying to......
A Nice Change Whether Or Not The Pen Is Mightier
than the sword, it is for the next two weeks incumbent upon me to wield the latter; so in the next three issues of the Spectator Strix's place will be taken by Glaux, which as I......
Basic And Supplementary Rummaging The Other Day In A Drawer,
looking for some- thing which I did not find, I came across some old petrol coupons. My first impulse was to throw them away. Though by nature improvident, I have enough sense......
Skeleton At The Holiday
T HE surburban trains held up outside the London termini, with a lighter load of workpeople than usual, to allow the seaside excursions and boat trains to get away, are a symbol......
Honour "the British Were Given A Place Of Honour Directly
facing the tribune on which stood the President of the Rumanian People's Republic." (The Daily Worker, reporting the World Youth Festival in Bucharest.) All this, and Everest......
August 4th, 1914 The French Nursery-maid Gave Us Our...
with a strip of pink tooth-paste spread out on the bristles. I saw to my amazement that she was crying; it was an unprecedented ?thing for a grown-up to do. We were too shy to......
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