The Princess Pocohontas Is One Of The Picturesque Figures Of
history. certainly of Anglo-American history, for by her marriage with John Rolfe, one of the very earliest British colonists. she —daughter of a Red Indian chief—forged what......
A Morning Spent In A London Police Court Is Always
interesting. Courts, no doubt, vary to some extent according to the personality of the magistrate, but there is no very great difference between them. In most, as in the one I......
Nothing Could Be More Tantalising Than The Reading Mr..e. M.
Forster gave at the Aldeburgh Festival from a novel that was begun and never finished—and is destined not to be finished, because, as Mr. Forster said, "it went wrong." So do......
One Passage From Mr. Amery's New Volume Of The Life
of Joseph Chamberlain has a certain relevance today. When Chamberlain visited South Africa in 1903, just after the end of the war, he attended a great Indaba of Bechuana chiefs......
Cricket Curiosities Always Have Their Interest, Even...
exalted is in question than a village match. And a game won without a single run, as distinct from extras, being scored has its points. The game in question was played one day......
British Central Africa ?
T HE statement made by the Colonial Secretary in the House of Commons on Wednesday on discussions and proposals regarding the three territories of Southern Rhodesia, Northern......
A Spectator's Notebook R Elief At The Satisfactory...
the King's doctors is to some extent counterbalanced by .the insis- tence laid on the essential necessity for a prolonged convalescence. Not, of course, that • there is any......