Shakespeare's Scotland

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A Spectator's Notebook

W HEN foreigners commit acts of—as it seems to us— folly or intransigence, we are often able, and sometimes willing. to find among the national charac- teristics of the country......

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When, more than twenty years ago, I wrote on a piece of paper the words "They do it because they want to. It suits them; it is their cup of tea," I could not foresee that the......

Between The Tides

T HERE is a stirring of excitement in the industrial world, but none yet at Westminster. This quiet and uncertainty cannot last for long. Before Parliament rises in July the......

As They Should, And Though We Are Rather- More Favourably

impressed by gloomy or anxious faces the margin is only a small one. We like kind faces, but an entire Cabinet suffused throughout with benignity would make us feel uneasy.......

Aspects Of Herpetophagy

My statement in these notes last week that snake tasted like eel has brought sceptical letters from two readers. " Has Strix ever tasted boiled krait ? " asks Mr. J. M. Reilly......