There Are Some Anecdotes That Are Worn So Threadbare That
the only interest left in them is their origin. Who was the author of the saying ? To whom did the incident really happen ? Take the well-known story of the candidate who, when......
I Wish The Prison Commissioners Would Consider A Para- Graph
which I read in an evening paper this week : " A Borstal boy escaped from Rochester Borstal Insti- tution this afternoon. Parties of boys from the institution are searching for......
How Do The Schools Of Today Teach English Literature ?
And do they do well to try to teach it at all ? I happen during the past week or two to have been discussing English (I am rather under pledge to say British in such cases,......
A Spectator's Notebook
L ORD CAMROSE (once Sir William Berry), having acquired The Morning Post, has announced his acquisi- tion, kept his own counsel regarding his intentions and gone off on holiday.......
On Monday, When The Duchess Of Kent Was Driving With
her two children to the coast, her car collided with another and its windows were broken. No one, fortunately, was so much as scratched. The Times recorded all the relevant......
I Have Read Of The Appointment Of Dr. Kenneth Kirk
to the Bishopric of Oxford with some interest in view of a conversation heard at the Oxford Union a few days earlier. The learned participants were laying down the conditions......
" Many A Woman To Whom A Child Had Been
denied owes the fulfilment of her heart's desire to the waters and the mud."—From a German hotel advertisement. Like Pharaoh's daughter ? Or parthenogenesis ? JANus.......
The Film In Church And School
A T the opening of the Film School at the London Institute of Education this week Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, stated that an enquiry......
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