Country Life READING a newspaper Cutting about cattle droving and the shoeing of cloven hooves that was once done when transport was out of the question, brought to mind a...

Jackdaw Impudence Charlie the jackdaw Is making a namnt for himself in the village. I first heard of him flying on to the heads of the little ones-on their way-to school. The...

Banding Reminder / , e If fruit trees have not, been grease-banded. by now, this should be done immediately to trap the wingless female winter moths as they ascend to deposit...

TMe Blackberry Crop I : . Blackberries arc never early up on the road to the moor and, feeling that a touch of frost in the air might ripen some and give us5 enough for a pie,...

a i dol These thoughts passed through my mind when I read th. ..:;dvertisement inserted in the Agony Column of The Times Zy:the friends of Richard III (Inc.), New York. on, te...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK > ~HERE cannot help but be a lot of heart-burning in If the Lesser Antilles this week. Princess Margaret Iobvfousivy cannot visit alR the British...

The Prophetic Jester 'I'M I have been re-reading When William Canme, that curt book in which 'Saki,' writing in 1912-13 and seeing that with Germany was inevitable and that...

Half-Starved An unknown well-wisher has sent me an article, entitle 'Millions Go Hungry in Britain Today,' from a'recent numbZ of the Railway, Review. It begins: 'Several...

A1ncouoast J':A generation too much given to 'fbunking. generally lays p,!'up trouble for itself. ,People who were young between the wars tended to put their money on the...

The Window Seat: A Life Observed. By R. H. Mottram. (Hutchinson. ISs.) IN the Eighties, Mr. Mottraw tells us, no decent woman could walk abroad in a Norfolk village in earlX...

''' it t 0 ' W if OTIS t RESE T ';g0'8 '''' ;''';1:r7'?'t; ^ '' ' E.HER, ~RECENT K F-40kolr Poemns of AMexander Pope. Edited by ,iffbonuan Ault and John Butt. (Methuen....

The Ea2qid TWhy. Edited by Arnold I g ' ' 'r ': A.Ie~iiann. 16S.)- T= colectiou of reptints from one of the most ots Amoidc magaies covers twenty YOM and contains over...

d of Ireland., By P. G. Kennedy, S. .",I 2Ibert F. Rutt ledge C: F. Scroope, IWssisted by G. R. Humphreys. (Oliver Ba~l oyd. tz ZS.) Fs lopng enough since any exhaustive book...

Insanity',Ait and Culture. By Francis Reit*! .' manor" (John Wright. 12s.-6d.) THE near-alliance of great wits and nadniesi; is a perennially interesting theme. For a...

The Lovers' Pocketbook. BY Ravmoid. Peynet. (Perpetua Books. 7.s 6d.) n I! >v7',2 M. Pi1ET specialises in one of those of comic art which appear so often no, ; days in flat,...

SIR,-1 was interested to reAd 'In the Moves ment,' the Spectator's first literary leading article. It seemed to kne to have. the importance of a White Paper, in' a field where...

i, Le' i et te rs to the Editor lo; -4 IN THE MOVEMENT E LI'_j4 44 am sure that your anonymous literary " is seeking to do a service to young Ft*s by associating them with a...

SIR,-What constitutes a literary movemeaf,"3 apdI is one born or made? Your literary, leading article, tIn the Movement,' begs the, first question, by awarding a apital M. It...

$ik'f .~ter tro tenth; trc-rcAding I am still Woprtain whether your brisk litcrary leader I4Xt the Moivqment' was a straight-forward p oftriumph C Hurrah I We've got a Mov i* t...

m yX . .. _ I say how grateful am to Mra Jeope-Hcnnessys tor drawing attention. sibaeauties of St. Stephen Wn dbrook 7 i hi will not think me ungracious if I W 06a sthat his...

Is X . MITHRAS REDIVIVUS A g'$* o, MitIras comes to light again; and WWII. fbr sure, cobgratulate a4 concerned *4~w*;come decision to fInd his-lenple 4,i home, on Queen...

IN THE PUBLICINTEREST SIR,-In its report on the supply of buildings in the Greater London area, the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices Commission comes to the conclusion that...

mig'. -,Th isarticle in.the Speciator (October 1) TV- PokHennegsy finds it. regrettablye Vltble city crowds sbould lhave;chosen. to the recently discovered teimplc :of...

SERVICING CARS Sm,..-Very heartening and timely was Gordon -Wilkins's article on the shortcomings of British ' car servicing and of the car itself that seems to require so much...

Under Two Standards On the same Oay as Halifax magistrates very sensibi decid0a that they had nothing against Miss, Diana Dors in 3-, (and, bathing dress) the Lord Chamberlain...

Carbridge Enterprise iMedcm women wear their emancipation lightly and, for, the *4ost pat,--preter' to forget the single. mindedness with which it V' alone achieved. Miss Beale...

The Proper Place for Diplomacy S the problem of Trieste was a number of contemporary fqblems in microcosm. So, potentially, was the method of the lution. A~nd in a small way it...

Alms-. for the Love of Art The ninth annual reRort of the Arts Council can only lead a thoughtful reader to one conclusion: that this country shoul be thoroughly ashamed of...

ouble iinV the Docks Again ~j> hree years of industrial.peace in tue docks have Fcope to e*-cnd. The dockers' ,dispute over tho''unloading and sording jo't mneat is not on its...

The Last Ninety Years -,. n -The Men Who Ruled India: The Guardians. Vol. 2. By Philip and Woodruff. (Jonathan Cape. 25s.)y READERS of Mr. Woodruff's first volume of this...

Civil Hi' t or . Country and CtiIng. B3y W. K. Hancock. (Faber. 18g.) SIR kErmH HANCOCx's autobiography does not end, but breaks' off. without a full stop, in mid-sentence,...

Compaity Notes By CUSTOS . . I SLOWLY the industrial share markets are pulling themselves out of the weakness caused by over-speculation and mistimed liquidation. The recovery...

FIN-ANCE: AININVSTMENTl .., By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Tim brokers'. Arculad which 'advocated selling British industrial shares and buying American would seem to be singularly...

BALLET -, Ballet du Th6Atre National de l'Op6rt a .Yi de Paris. (Royal Opera House.) ' ; "illi IT is always refreshing and often stimulating - to see other methods of...

CINEMA Lease of Life. (Leicester Square.)-Rear Window. (Plaza.) EALIN Studios' latest contribution to the screen, Lease of Life, marks the return of Robert Donat who has been...

BOOKS OF THrE WEEK \ , The Second Empire By D. W. BROGAN I TH~'IE revival of interest in the Second Empire is not merely the result of the lapse of time, the change in...

TELEVISION and RADIO j Parlour Game Wise i , WHAT depth of ddcolletage wil IM4i Dripping fall to this week Will I4rsimonia Henn wear 'orchids on her Oarsx AsldWillar4 Grumble,...

ART THE summer's two great C6zanne exhibitions in Paris and Edinburgh, have already been touched upon in these columns. The arrival, of the latter at the Tate, for a stay of...

f??yY H I TH EATRE is,~*J loan. By Bernard Shaw. (Arts.) -mulh knowledge of. religious psyoi~o~vgy do you need to write a play about i iint? WAnd how far can a modem...

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-- Gladstone Reconsidered .I, Gladstone. By Sir Philip Magnus. (John Murray. 28s.) ;:'. ;SIR PHILIP MAGNUS, with the approval of the Gladstone family, has tried in this book...

New Novels I ,U_ The Soldier. By Karliudwig Opitz. (Frederick Muller. lOs. 6d.) a A Proper Marriage. By Doris Lessing. (Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d.) The Soldier is an...

Over to France > ; The London Conference came to an agreement on how , German sovereignty should be restores and a German armya re-formed along lines that were largely...

PEACE OR PROPAGANDA? e THESE new fellows in the Kremlin,' said General - Gruenther. as he left President Eisenhower last :\: Saturday, 'are much more clever than Mr. Stalin ii...

The Abbe Breuil .and Palaeolithic Art By GLYN DANIEL P ALAEOL1THIC art, as it now appears to archeologists and historians in the middle of the twentieth century, owes much to...

'*1< Compton Mackenzie W TRITING about those wrecks on the west. coast of '\i\J the Lizard Peninsula reapy set me off dreaming of some other wrecks, ii 'ornwall and elsewhere....

i, I . .1 I ?I !p-,; 11 ... e? ?I . .?765 The , Chinese Contribution >gr,~O and Clyflissat In China. Vol. 1. By 3osepl Needham, NEV >-, F.R.S. (CU.P. 52F,.,6d.) , M the...

THE END OF THE TATE AFFAIR HERE are three principal reasons 'why the report of . the Tate Gallery trustees* has been so eagerly, and ; anxiously, awaited. In- the first place,...

'South African Qilemmas R t: JEROME CAMINADA "nfroharn 0 further elections are in sight'n South Africa for four ~g l\1 years, unless the Government springs a surprise, and l...

e Deepening Crisis or ' sO jSy LOkD HAILSHAM 0 men of,, Lord Templewood's generation, the First I World War was not merely an unparalleled disaster, but. to quote his own...

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