0 NE of the strongest objections of Victorian rationalists to the Christian religion was its alleged morbid emphasis on the idea of sacrifice. This objection, it must be...

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T HE Report of the Royal Commission contains 'no discussion of what may be called the religious aspect of marriage and divorce.' This is a pity, perhaps, although it is...

By RICHARD H. ROVERE New York T HE defeat of Adlai Stevenson in last week's primary election in Minnesota appears to have been an event of enormous significance. It may change...

T HE Economic Survey, 1956, is no more than an economic history of 1955. As such it is a remarkably outspoken criticism of the failure of Government policies last year. At the...

the price of the Spectator. On April 6 it will be raised from 7d. to 9d. Rising costs have at last made inevitable an increase in the price of the Spectator. On April 6 it will...

By Our German Correspondent Bonn S LOWLY (and, which for Germany is new, discreetly) the Federal Republic is easing its way to the front in interna- tional affairs and claiming...

O NCE again the main news of the week concerns the Middle East—that conglomeration of sand, nationalism and oil — though the result of the Grand National and M. Malenkov's...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE A T the very heart of the Establishment moves Robert Pl. Henry, the first Baron Brand of Eydon, a director of Lazards and a director of The• Times Publishing...

Next week's Issue will Include Sir Leuis Namier on Walpole, and articles and reviews by John Ariott, Randolph S. Churchill, Glyn E. Daniel, Len Harvey, William Douglas Home,...

GENUINE SCOOPS in the newspaper world are a rarity these days; so I was delighted to see last week that the Manchester Guardian beat everyone to the news of Serov's arrival. I...

if commentators had not forgotten their Kipling they would no doubt have felt that his comment, 'cur to the bone,' was hardly appropriate to last Saturday's saddest story. My...

affair was that it concentrated public attention upon the Foreign Office, which, considering everything, doesn't do too badly, and diverted attention from the Home Office,...

Viscountess Fitz Alan, 57, from her proposed marriage to Lord Fitzwilliam, six years her junior. He is Father Eugen Kennedy—Lady Fitz Alan's private chaplain. Sunday Express,...

BY CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS W HAT was it for which Judas Iscariot was paid? The straightforward answer is that he was paid thirty pieces of silver for identifying the Prisoner to the...

ours in certain respects. I have come to this important conclusion after reading a long letter from a friend of mine in Tokyo in which he described his experiences at an...

James VI . . . made a profession of kingcraft, wrote books about it, lectured on it, and never managed to attain any degree of success In it.—A. P. Thornton, in History Today,...

By GLYN E. DANIEL T HERE have always been cranks in archeology and the increase in the popular interest in archeology in the last five years has naturally meant an increase in...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN M R. G. W. NOAKES is the official Magic Lantern Projectionist to the Albert Hall. He it is who erects the large screen at the back of the singers in Hiawatha...

I LISTENED the other day to two men arguing about giants. One was an old man, and he maintained that the reason why, when we look about us, we see no giants is because giants...

APRIL 2, 1831 EVILS OF WAR.—One of the Paris Papers calls upon the French Government to stop the further progress of the Austrians in Italy, on the irresistible ground that...

the course,of his review Canon Vidler has the following: 'Roman Catholic writers no longer claim explicit evidences for it [Marian doctrine] in the Bible. They admit there was...

indict- ment of local councils (March 16) appeared merely as a kind of postscript to his protest about the goings-on at Thorpe. It is not really extraordinary that local...

African Culture Henry C. Oguehi Arabs v. Israel Neil Hughes-Onslow Local Government Loyalties Thomas Harper The Munnings Exhibition Thomas Bodkin Mother of God Martin Price...

Clive on the Middle East, but, like so many, he assumes that, in any future war, the Arab armies will automati- cally defeat Israel. Those with post-war experience of the Middle...

SIR,—In denigrating the art of Sir Alfred Mun- nings to the extent of a full column in your issue of March 23 Mr. Basil Taylor shows that his second thoughts were not for the...

SIN—A year or two ago, after I had recited several of F. W. Harvey's poems to a village hall in Gloucestershire, an old salmon• fisher- man rose to his feet to ask, 'Tell 1, be...

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slightly different: I heard it used by Laski in Dublin at the College Historical Society. He appealed to an earlier speaker, a Professor of History, who had made a facetious...

Social Realist CONTINUING its admirable series of retrospec- tive exhibitions, the Whitechapel Gallery is showing the work which Josef Herman has accomplished since he came to...

Sta,—,Obscured in turn by the remoteness of its locality and the rival sensation of the South Uist Rocket Range, the Balelone- Balmartin dispute has proceeded discreetly to a...

the British, I offer two quotations of opinion on the result of the Grand National. From the Sunday Express: 'Said Lord Rosebery, "This is one of the most terrible things I have...

IT must not be supposed that a television critic watches his screen, afternoon in, evening out, throughout the week. If he did, he would soon cease to be a television critic and...

ROBERT ROSSEN'S Alexander the Great is something entirely new and wholly different in intention as well as in result from the general run of mammoth pseudo-historical efforts on...

ONE BRIGHT DAY. By Si g mund Miller. (Apollo.)—A LIKELY TALE. By Gerald Savory. (Globe.) , PERSONALLY, I like problem plays. The casuistry of the sta g e can both provide and...

Two new concertantc works by Rubbra have been introduced at the Festival Hall recently. Last week his Piano Concerto was g iven its first performance by Denis Matthews, and a...

Less than four minutes lon g , Entree Japonaise, Frederick Ashton's dance morsel served' up by Mar g ot Fonteyn at the Covent Garden Gala performance on Thursday. proved a...

published if ! Great Britain and reviewed or advertised in the paper's columns to he sent to maders who cannot otherwise obtain them. Orders must be accompanied by a remittance...

Solemn Old Soul BY ROBERT BLAKE T HERE is probably no one—with the possible exception of Mr. Frank Richards (the creator of Billy Bunter)— who has written as much as Professor...

MR. ST. JOHN-STEVAS'S book is a hilarious guide to Wonderland. Mad Hatters frolic through his pages—the late James Douglas, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, their modern counterparts,...

IF this book, its translation, and its publication by a reputable publishing house, have any significance, it is as one more indication that anti-intellectualism is quietly...

GOD PROTECT ME FROM MY FRIENDS. By Gavin Maxwell. (Longmans, 18s.) `HE had just one thing wrong with him: he rather liked killing people,' observed an experienced American...

Whodunits, has spent the paSt fifteen years in Hollywood where he has been employed as a script writer. It must he presumed that his services have now been dispensed with, for...

satirical' would be bracketed second to 'poses the dilemma of our time' in any list of effective purchase-preventin g ta g s has nev e r been undermined. It does seem that,...

LAST AND FIRST IN BURMA. By Maurice Collis. (Faber, 30s.) THE story of 'the For g otten Army' seems safe at last in the care of Field-Marshal Slim, whose memoir has just...

THE Crusades have been a popular theme for historians recently. There were Grousset's three volumes and then three from Steven Runciman, and now here is the first volume of a...

HERE, at last, is a book that disperses the fog of misundecstanding that surrounds con- temporary Argentina. George Pendle, the author of Argentina (Royal Institute of Inter-...

EVEN the most devoted supporters of Mau Mau will not derive much useful aid from Law and Disorder : Scenes of Life in Kenya, by Peter Evans (Seeker and Warburg, 18s.). It is a...

By CUSTOS medium-to-long loans in the capital mar- ket. It has even been borrowing 'short' to THE market in industrial equity shares, after its recovery, has become irregular...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT ONCE again borrowing rates have been put up against the local authorities by the Public Works Loan Board. Loans for over fifteen years will now cost them...

Most house sparrows are content to build in cavities under the eaves and such places, pack- ing their bits of grass and feathers in to make it snug within, but some years ago we...

By IAN NIALL I OFTEN wonder what that very worthy country- man William Cobbett would make of the agri- cultural scene today, could he return to travel the roads and inspect the...

We all have our measure of grief at one time or another, and the speaker was apparently telling of his personal loss. Unfortunately I missed the first part of the conversation,...

BY PHILIDOR No. 43. A. M. SPARKE WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. BLACK (10 men) Solution to last week's problem by Larsen: Kt-K 7! 1 . . . Q x Kt ch;...

Dwarf peas are popular mainly because there is little or no difficulty in cultivating them. They need very little space, for they can be grown as close as two feet between rows,...

stories of the 'I Was a Communist for the FBI' type could be extended beyond the background of the cold war. A prize of £5 is o f fered for an extract from a novel or film...

ACROSS '1 Marine engines in the tool-box (12). 9 It keeps its distance and isn't seen in company (9). 10 Thirty points of animosity (5). 11 Shortly Valentine will get round...

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A prize of £5 was o f fered for the best poem on Easter, in the manner of Herbert and shaped like an Easter egg. Fittsr of all, congratulations to nearly all competitors on the...