27 JUNE 1931, page 13

St. John's Hospital, Clereenwell.

This hospital, after a period of 297 years, was re-opened yesterday. for the purpose of affording advice and medicine to the sick poor, without any distinction of country or......

On Monday, The Stupendous Work Of The Suspension Bridge...

the Avon, from Clifton Heights to Leawood, was commenced under the superintendence of the Trustees and Mr. Brunell junior, their engineer.......

A Hundred Years Ago

General' Diebitsch died on the 10th instant, at Kleczeco, near Pultusk, a town about thirty miles north of Warsaw. The cause of his death has been variously assigned. The first......

Poetry

Traigh Road TIIE old man talking to himself beside the sea Lost in his fierce, proud dreams, Heeds not, nay, scarcely sees the graceless three Jeering and grinning there to hide......

The Go-getter.

The other day, in Hereford, a man who claimed, through descent from the Tudors, to be the rightful king of England, was fined 104. for holding a meeting Of six hundred people to......

The Cinema

[RUSSIAN : FRENCH : AMERICAN.] WHEN I arrived at the Academy Theatre a notorious agent provocateur, cunningly disguised as a bourgeois of some sixteen summers, was selling a......

Art

[TEE NATIONAL SOCIETY.] THE second annual exhibition of the National Society at the Royal Institute Galleries, 195 Piccadilly, which closes at the end of this month is a great......