... ($0^ fl _ brZ /h\ (o\ POKTKAITS nfrMK Beware of I lie Bog WHEN I first went to live in the town it was a smallish place sleeping (most of the time) under a rarely failing sun that had that somnolent warmth you also find in the back curve of a child's neck-- it smelt of golden motes that danced in purest light and sang a wordless song of purest happiness before vanishing to a purest heaven. On ...

... The Dream of the Golfer who forgot his a day IS GOOD FOR YOU ...

... PICTORIAL POLITICS. The End Approaches. T t is a matter of some difficulty to prognosticate the date of the demise of the present Socialist Government. Its life may be prolonged by the nervous attentions of the Liberal Party, who have no desire, according to The Westminster Gazette, to go to the polls and see the Labour Party weakened to the profit of Conservatism. It may be that Mr. ...

... PETROL VAPOUR By W. G. ASTON. Too Much Economy IF this year there is not quite such an atmosphere of gaiety and abandon about the Motor Show, there is no doubt plenty of reason for that state of affairs. For one thing it is only a few days since the Income Tax assessments arrived to decorate the breakfast table, and it takes some little time for most of us to recover from the smack in the eye ...

... THE PASSING SHOWS Cochran's 1931 Revue, at the London Pavilion WHETHER Charles B. Cochran's 1931 .Revue will be running by the time these notes and sketches appear is on the knees of the gods or, perhaps, the laps of the stalls. Redeemed from a nine days' fate by a magnanimous surrender of salaries on the part of the three American principals, the revue at the moment of rescuing these lines ...

... PETROL VAPOUR By W. G. ASTON. New Law. AFTER the Prime Minister of Great Britain has tartly told the Mother of Parliaments that a matter of national importance is no concern of the House of Commons there is no excuse for one being surprised at anything; it is just a plain tip, literally from the horse's mouth, that Bureaucracy, by Whitehall out of Incompetence, is a sure winner. And yet I ...

... Pictorial Politics, The Allied Fronts. THERE is nothing the Germans desire more than to sow discord between the Allies, particularly be tween the English and French nations, for which purpose they stealthily cir culate the canard that Eng land is merely making use of France to settle with a commercial enemy. Hav ing regard to this we think that the diagram systemati cally published in a daily ...

... Tlhie UinievemitlfuEll ILnfo B^ FsiSinio He was an innocuous little man married to an innocuous little wife. They had a harmless home in Putney, and during the day he was regularly employed by a City firm which was in no way deleterious. He was one of those men to whom nothing ever happens. This was unfortunate, for he was by nature talkative and liked particularly to talk of what had happened ...

... Smme BoM.s of Interest. The Novel for a Lazy Day. AS a cure for that moping melancholy feeling and general flatness which so often succeed Christ mas irresponsibility we can heartily recommend The Green Domino (John Lane), by Mr. Anthony Dyllington. Its cheerfulness is absolutely infectious, and before you have dived very far among its pages you are caught. Naturally the course of true ...

... First Prize of One Guinea. Fishy Mother (looking at Johnny reproachfully) Where have you been this afternoon, Johnny Johnny (uneasily) Sunday school. Mother Then how is it you smell of fish and are so wet Johnny (desperately) Teacher told us the story of Jonah and the whale. Thomas Phillips, 3, Baker Street, Handsworth, Birmingham. THE CHESTNUT TREE. The Editor of The Tatler offers One ...

... A Revolution in. Journalism. SometlfomsJ Never Dime Before0 The following was found in The Tatler letterbox, and it is reproduced here for what it is worth. THE management begs to announce the forthcoming publication of a new weekly journal. Every feature in connection with it will be as unique as its price, which will be half-a- guinea. It will supply a long-feltwant, and no one with social ...

... TOILB IN PASSING ioTES, American Acquisitions. THESE headlines from an American daily just to hand are quite in teresting from the English point of view:-- AMERICANS IN THE HUNT FOR PRINCESSES. Mrs. John W. Mackay secures Princess Louise as Her Great Social Lion. Very Difficult to Get. Mrs. Ogden Mills secures the Princess Christian, Who is in Great Demand. Young Americans in Paris. \\I ...