3 NOVEMBER 1967

Page 1

Why Mr Brown must go

The Spectator

George Brown must go—but not for the reasons usually advanced. It is the Chalfont Affair; and -net -the latest exchange of pleasantries with Lord Thomson—the • coff- ducL of...

Page 2

No damn merit about it

The Spectator

- The theoretical case for reforming -the House of Lords is irrefutable. The power of -the executive in Britain has inc reased, is in- - creasing, and ought to be 'diminished. A...

Taming the jellyfish

The Spectator

, London lies on the map lik.a.huge jellyfish, threatening as-it grows to engulf. its surround- ings for many miles in al} directions. The planning strategy proposed this week...

Portrait of the week

The Spectator

'Legislation will be introduced to. reduce the powers of the Houk of Lords and to eliminate its present hereditary basis,' taid the Ottien's . Speech. The speech also referred...

Page 3

Mr Wilson and the Lords

The Spectator

POLITICAL COMMENTARY AUBERON WAUGH Long before the Queen's speech on Tuesday, everybody knew that the House of Lords was for the chopper. Mr Crossman's leaks had been so heavy...

Temple of wisdom

The Spectator

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Shirley Temple is running as a Republican candidate for Congress on a platform which promises her constituents 'a happier time for all through moral...

Page 4

The Spectator

Barriers up

The Spectator

AMERICA WILLIAM JANE WAY Four months after the conclusion of the Ken- nedy Round trade negotiations, the Finance Committee of the United States Senate is con- sidering a sheaf...

Thomson's choice

The Spectator

RHODESIA MALCOLM SMITH Malcolm Smith recently arrived in this country following his resignation as editor of the Rhodesia Herald, a post he had held since 1962. On Tuesday the...

Page 5

Girls in detention

The Spectator

CRIME & PUNISHMENT GILES PLAYFAIR In its White Paper on the treatment of juvenile offenders (August 1965) the Govern- ment committed itself to a policy of no change regarding...

Page 6

Hogg and hash

The Spectator

THE PRESS DONALD McLACHLAIST To the layman reader of The Times it may seem odd, as it did to Mr Quintin Hogg, that the newspaper should carry one day a leading article against...

Page 7

The impact on the outside world

The Spectator

RUSSIA: FIFTY YEARS AFTER-3 TIBOR SZAMUELY Two great social revolutions have shaped modern history: - the French and the Russian. But nothing could be more different than the...

Page 8

SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

The Spectator

J. W. M. THOMPSON One must beware of growing cynical about society's fumbling attempts to 'plan' the helter- skelter changes which are happening to the environment. A brilliant...

Page 9

Why all this fuss about libraries?

The Spectator

PERSONAL COLUMN ANTHONY BURGESS 'The fire has spread from your ships,' cries Theodotus to Caesar. The first of the seven wonders of the world perishes. The library of...

Page 10

The vintner's tale

The Spectator

CONSUMING INTEREST LESLIE ADRIAN The next best thing to drinking wine is talking about it, and the next best thing to talking about it is reading about it. Among the premiers...

Sick of travelling

The Spectator

MEDICINE JOHN ROWAN WILSON When I was a small boy I vas troubled greatly by motion-sickness. This used to loom particularly large on long car journeys, when it would become...

Page 12

A hundred years ago

The Spectator

From the 'Spectator', 2 November, I867—Mr. Anthony Trollope has retired from the Post Office, and his friends and colleagues have commemorated that event by a dinner given to...

Voting with their feet

The Spectator

TABLE TALK PENIS BROGAN I have for some time past been pondering the question of the 'brain drain' and the recent re- port on the subject makes the question even more topical...

Page 13

Hawkeye and the Indians BOOKS

The Spectator

C. B. COX Hawkeye, Pathfinder, Deerslayer, the trapper, Natty Bumppo, are the various names of the hero of James Fenimore Cooper's famous Leatherstocking series of novels. Ile...

Page 14

Chekhov revisited

The Spectator

J. M. COHEN This Oxford edition is definitive. The plays, their variants, letters and notes bearing on their composition and staging and some other introductory material,...

Page 15

NEW NOVELS

The Spectator

Judge's story DAVID REES The Beauty of the World Honor Tracy (Methuen 25s) The Tomorrow Country Jack Wilson (Muller 25s) Wyke Regis John Leonard (Gollancz 30s) Enemy and...

Page 17

Extinct volcano

The Spectator

ARNOLD BEICHMAN Over lunch in New York the other day,,,,a young, attractive New Left university girl are-. scribed her unhappiness about the Negro problem. At a recent...

Fighting women

The Spectator

MARY HOLLAND The Bloomer Girls Charles Neilson Gattey (Femina Books 35s) When I was writing a weekly article on fashion and hard up for something, anything, to write about, one...

Page 18

Shorter notices

The Spectator

The Undergrowth of Literature Gillian Free- man introduction by - David Stafford-Clark (Nelson 30s). A woman's-eye view of the ex- tremely wide range of publications devoted to...

Page 19

Blissful freedom CHILDRPN'S BOOKS

The Spectator

IAN NORRIE Books for adults are reviewed by adults, and adults read the reviews. Children's books, with freak exceptions, are also written and reviewed by adults, and the...

Page 20

Myth and poetry

The Spectator

WILLIAM BUCHAN The Shadow Land Peter Vansittart (Macdonald 16s) In their very different ways these two books would make a good addition to the library of any intelligent older...

Light and dark

The Spectator

PETER VANSITTART Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll illustrated by Ralph Steadman (Dobson 63s) The traditional fairy-tale necessarily mingled the light and the dark, as Carroll...

Bubbling away

The Spectator

STELLA RODWAY The Battlefield William Mayne (Hamish Hamilton 18s) This is a book where children and adults rival each other, as in life, in the quirkiness and inconsequence of...

Page 21

Blueprint

The Spectator

ELAINE MOSS Many people believe that background in children's books is a divisive element (out-with- pony-club, in-with-'pop') and so it can be if it is merely a sterile...

The Wi.shing Tree William Faulkner

The Spectator

Full of magic ELIZABETH JENNINGS illus- trated by Don Bolognese (Chatto and Vs'indus 18s) William Faulkner seems the most unlikely person to have written a children's book....

Page 22

Hints of discord

The Spectator

DAVID WADE The Owl Service Alan Garner (Collins 15s) Alan Garner's latest novel has many of the qualities of his previous work. It is profoundly imaginative and written in...

Page 23

My Third Big Story-Book Richard Bamberger (Oliver and Boyd 27s

The Spectator

6d). Dr Bamberger is an international authority on children's books and his third collection of stories, finely illus- trated by Emmanuela Wallenta, is rich, varied and meaty....

JUNIOR BOOKGUIDE My First Book of Nursery Rhymes Jenny Williams

The Spectator

(Nelson 9s 6r1). A small collection of nursery rhymes for which Jenny Williams has drawn outstanding pictures which combine traditional nursery lore with the highest stan-...

Stories

The Spectator

Winter's Tales for Children, 3 edited by Kevin Crossley-Holland (Macmillan 30s). A collection of stories, poems and a play for children over nine, newly written by distinguished...

Page 24

Facts and People

The Spectator

Stories of Courage Cleodie Mackinnon (ouP, Oxford Children's Reference Library, 21s). Inspiring tales of moral steadfastness and physi- cal endurance, told concisely but...

Ages ten to fourteen

The Spectator

A Long Vacation Jules Verne tianslated by Olga Marx (ouP 16s). Historically speaking, a connecting link between Robinson Crusoe and The Lord of the Flies: fourteen shipwrecked...

Page 25

Non-fiction

The Spectator

The Story of Our Heritage V. M. Hillyer and E. G. Huey (Nelson, nine volumes, 10 g ns). A scrappy encyclopaedia of world history, pure and applied art which dares to call...

Poetry

The Spectator

William Blake : an Introduction Anne Mal- colmson (Constable Youn g Books 21s). Not all of Blake's poetry speaks directly to the youn g ; here, notes illuminate the symbolic...

Page 26

At it again

The Spectator

TELEVISION STUART HOOD Something very curious is happening to the English language. It is that in prepositional phrases the accent is coming more and more to be thrown on to...

0 good, 0 Montreal ARTS

The Spectator

BRYAN ROBERTSON An artist called Jean Louis makes from plastic, in shallow relief on the wall, large cloud-like shapes, softly rounded in contour, which appear to swell up from...

Page 27

THEATRE

The Spectator

Samuel smiles HILARY SPURLING Honeymoon (Hampstead Theatre Club) What baffles me about our various well-mean- ing avant-gardes is their prodigious appetite for punishment....

Good looks

The Spectator

CHARLES REID On the night that Pierre Boulez followed up Berlioz's 'Fantastic' Symphony at a London Symphony Orchestra concert with its so-called sequel and complement, the...

Page 28

CINEMA

The Spectator

Fish go back PENELOPE HOUSTON Barrier (Academy Three, 'A') The Day the Fish Came Out (Rialto, 'A') The first few shots of Jerzy Skolimowski's Barrier are dazzlingly,...

Page 29

Reserve realities

The Spectator

STERLING -NICHOLAS DAVENPORT This earnest discussion of the 'reserve' status of sterling is becoming tedious and tendentious. I thought Mr Callaghan was somewhat con-...

State aid, Italian style MONEY

The Spectator

JOCK BRUCE-GARDYNE The most important and controversial piece of economic legislation in the parliamentary ses- sion which began this week is going to be the so-called...

Page 31

More thought for food

The Spectator

BUSINESS VIEWPOINT JOSEPH RANK Mr Joseph Rank is deputy chairman and chief executive of Ranks Hovis McDougall, the biggest flour-milling group in the country. Last week my...

Page 33

CITY DIARY

The Spectator

CHRISTOPHER FILDES- When Mr Ronald Grierson was seconde&from the . great merchant banking house of S. G. Warburg to get the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation under way,...

ffolkes's business alphabet

The Spectator

Page 34

The canal turn

The Spectator

PORTFOLIO JOHN BULL My starting point this week is the Suez Canal. Hopes of an early reopening have fallen sharply in the past fortnight. As a result, shipping, in spite of the...

Market report

The Spectator

CUSTOS The share market has moved through its 400 barrier (Financial Times index), as I ex- pected, and is still moving ahead in a 'bid' feverish state. Phoenix has increased...

Page 35

Sir: A suggestion for the epitaph on Mr Simon Raven's

The Spectator

tomb in Westminster Abbey— Maitre Corbeau! Anthony Asquith 27 Thurloe Square, London SW7

Dead language

The Spectator

Sir: Mr Raven (20 October) did not look care- fully enough. The striking and inimitable epitaph which appeared on the wall above him (it also appears on the floor) in...

Snob stories

The Spectator

Sir: Fie on my dear old friend Denis Brogan! It wasn't the Maclean, it was the Macneil (of Barra in the outer Hebrides from whom I am distantly 'descended) who responded to...

The roots of industrial anarchy

The Spectator

Sir: It is misguided to see the solution to Britain's industrial problem through the implementation of two such . reactionary measures as were suggested in last week's leading...

Sir: No Big Brother or Big Sister is forcing Mr

The Spectator

Nisei Vinson (21st October) to change his drink- ing habits. He has only to take a taxi to his plat* ,.ef drink instead of driving to it. Would he grudge a taxi fare to save...

Drinking and driving

The Spectator

Sir: Mr Vinson's rejoinder (27 October) does sot seem very convincing. 'Social conduct' is surely already 'subject to prescribed limits' under various generalised heads which do...

Sir: Some think that in reaction from the present 'permissiveness'

The Spectator

in general behaviour this country may in due course be engulfed in one of its peri- odical waves of puritanism. I am inclined to believe that the first waves are already upon us...

The prisoners of St Kitts

The Spectator

LETTERS From Diana Prior-Palmer, Robert Hartman, Anthony Asquith, Graham Hutton, C. R. W. Shearer, Stephen Harris, Mrs D. E. Estcourt, Mrs M. Daniels, Richard Twentyman, Miron...

Sir: I am a great admirer of Sir Denis Brogan's

The Spectator

entertaining and sophisticated 'Table Talk,' but may I, as a humble layman, question one of his judgments last week (27 October)? He says that Brand was a great Speaker. But...

Page 36

, The wee wee man

The Spectator

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS John Glashan, the creator of tiny..beardecl men mooning about in front of enormous heaps of architecture, is certainly one of the funniest cartoonists...

Three 2100 prizes

The Spectator

Sir: With the object of encouraging new talent, Adam, the Anglo-French quarterly, announces the creation of three literary prizes of £100 each, to be conferred at six-monthly...

COMPETITION

The Spectator

No. 473: The word game Competitors are invited to use the following twelve words, taken from the opening pages of a well-known work of literature, in the order given, to...

Page 37

Crossword no. 1298

The Spectator

Across 1 Sisterly fellow-traveller with Lionel and Slingsby (6) 4 After the dance, ancestor fails in the end but finds equilibrium (8) 10 Horseman (7) 11 Horsemen (7) 12 The...

Chess no. 359

The Spectator

PHILIDOR White 11 men 9 men L. Loschinski (2nd prize, Przepiorka Memorial Tourney, 1949). White to play and mate in three moves; solution next week. Solution to No. 358...