The English Parliament For A Long Time Commanded The Respect
of foreigners. I am speaking not alone of its architecture, but also of its customs and ways. In the English Parliament, there is neither the rough drill of the Reichstag nor......
The Bookstall
By T. R. GLOVER. F ROM time to time, for a good century now, books have appeared that have dealt most readably with the amenities of book-collecting. Sometimes it has been the......
England Through- Soviet Spectacles
[We publish below some extracts from a document which we have recently had the good fortune to acquire, written by an emissary of the Soviet sent over to England to describe the......
London, As A City, Is Not Afraid Of Contrasts :
it almost lives by them. Other cities have their censors ; shame or fear. Here, everything is in the open. The English are, on the other hand, notoriously shy ; they cannot bear......
The Food In England Is As Insipid And As Wearisome
as the English Sunday. The cooks contrive to make any good food unsavoury. The fish is cooked without salt, without butter, without lemon. In order to swallow it, one has to......
Previous page
