31 MAY 1935, page 12

Marginal Comments

By ROSE MACAULAY I SOMETIMES wonder if publishers overestimate the .I. modernity of their readers' tastes, or if this is impossible. " We like .books dealing with modern con-......

A Hundred Years Ago " The Spectator," May 30th, 1835.

PRISON Discirilsz.—In the. House of Peers, on Monday, Lord MELBOURNE pledged himself to bring in a bill to improve the state of the prisons, in conformity with the resolution of......

A Bus In Jehol

By RALPH MORTON T HERE were twelve of us in the bus when at last it started. But when we reached the east gate of the town a soldier jumped on. " Have you got a ticket ? " asked......