5 JANUARY 1929, page 16

Correspondence

A LETTER FROM OSLO. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR. Sia,—The last few months of this year have, in a sense, been different from all similar periods before. Usually we talk......

The Cinema

" THE LOVES OF JEANNE NEY." AT THE PICCADILLY CINEMA. " THE PATRIOT." AT THE PLAZA. THE New Year opens with the general release of one of the best films made during 1928, The......

Poetry

The Call STRANGE, that a barn, and a cow . Knee-deep in nettle-foam, Should call my ambitious thoughts So quietly home : Bow down my brain under dreams Of simple troubles, and......

A Hundred Years Ago

It is now some weeks since we have had almost anything sub- mitted to our notice besides works of fiction : the practical evil of which is, that the sight of a novel becomes so......

Medical Science.

Among the reforms contemplated by the French Government in the medical profession, is one, that no physician or surgeon under' thirty, or more than sixty years of age, shall be......