12 JUNE 1953, page 7

S Uch A Help Besides The Statesmen And Ecclesiastics...

duty it is to give her counsel, besides her husband and her mother to whom she can turn for it if she feels inclined, the Queen h as acquired a steadily expanding corps of......

The Old Workman It Is Seldom That We Derive Pleasure

from the perusal of a bill. I accordingly feel justified in quoting from a statement of his account submitted by a retired estate carpenter to a lady for whom he does occasional......

Death In The Wind My Keeper Always Looks A Bit

glum when there is a high wind at this time of year. A lot of wild pheasant chicks are now about the size of sparrows and able to fly for a short distance, and he believes that,......

A Spectator's Notebook

OT merely in the short history of the British Empire but in the long history of war there has never been anything like the Commonwealth Division now serv- al in Korea. We are......

A Truce In Korea

0 NE of the most serious casualties of the cold war has been the practice of constructive, as opposed to defensive, diplomacy. The western world has become so absorbed in......

Exit, Pursued By A Bear I Am Indebted To The

Shakespeare Newsletter, which is ptth- lished in New York, for news of what promises to be an e xceptionally interesting production of King Lear. The original play has been......