When Dean Alington Was Made Headmaster Of Eton, The...
Body deserted all precedents by appointing a man who, for all his close connexions with the School, had not been an Eton boy. In appointing as his suc- cessor Mr. C. A. Elliot,......
The Visit Of The Prince Of Wales To Stowe On
its tenth anniversary is a tribute to the most successful of post- War public schools. Its success (gauged numerically) has been striking. At its foundation in 1923, the school......
I Find It Difficult To Believe That 50 Years Have
passed since Mr. H. W. Nevinson "began his literary career by writing his first book, a scholarly study of Herder" (to repeat the words of the group of distinguished friends who......
Mr. Nevinson, I Should Add, Is Often A Stormy Petrel,
a harbinger of trouble. In an unexpected, speech which Mr. H. G. Wells, the President, allowed him to make at the last meeting of the English centre of the P.E.N. Club, he......
National Or Party Government ?
S OME reflections, on the condition of the "National Government" are thrust upon us by the attitude of the Cabinet to the question of the payment . of the £19,000,000 instalment......
A Spectator's Notebook
S URELY nothing could be more lamentable than attempts to make political capital out of the position in India and the Government's programme of reforms. Of informed criticism—of......
I Do Not Know Who Is Destined To Write The
official life of Horatio Bottomley, but if it is well done it should be a strange study in morbid psychology. Already there has been a tendency to make of him a sort of......
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