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... THE making of a classic.-- A recent article which I wrote for this page on the subject of literary parallels, with special reference to Shorthouse's famous philosophical-religious romance, John Ingle sant, brought me, as I hoped it might, a great deal of information concerning the methods employed by the author. Most of this was contained in a clipping from the Spectator of September 1934, ...
... T ady Millicent Hart Dyke has given up her beautiful old-world Tudor home Lulhngstone Castle, near Eyns- ford, in Kent to silkworms. The worms fill all the accommodation in the castle, even the Rectory and the bed rooms. Lady Hart Dyke has been breeding the worms for thirteen years. She is now living in a small cottage on the estate later she plans to employ fifty ex-Servicemen. During 1939 ...
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... THE HEAD OF THE CONTROL COMMISSION ATTENDS A CONFERENCE IN THE SCHONBRUNN PALACE IN VIENNA The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Mr. Hynd, is also the Minister of State responsible for the Control Commissions for Austria and Germany. He recently attended a conference at the Schon- brunn Palace, Vienna, at which Lieut. -General McCreery, his staff, and high officials of the Allied Com ...
... a merican opinion is very A perturbed over the con dition of affairs in China. The National (Chungking) Govern ment has received a great amount of aid from America, in addition to the help given by Great Britain. The President is, naturally desirous, as are the other Allies, to see China rapidly resume her orderly life and to take her place once more as the busy trading nation she once was. ...
... THE announcement has just been made by the U.S. authorities in occupation of Japan that all Government-inspired efforts to spread a belief in the Emperor's divinity are to cease in Japan. The islands forming the Japanese homeland are covered with Shinto shrines of varying types. A great number of them are formed as archways, across which is suspended a sacred rope. Some of these stand in ...
... THE CARDINAL-ELECT CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS VESPERS IN WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL Dr. Bernard Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, has been created a Cardinal, at the age of forty-six. Son of a Birmingham carpenter, he has the reputation of having one of the keenest brains in the British hierarchy. He will go to Rome to receive the Red Hat from the Pope on February 18. This picture of him was taken on ...
... rHE EAST SIDE OF THE HISTORIC WAKEFIELD TOWER This thirteenth- century building was severely damaged by blast from a flying bomb in June 1944. In this tower Henry VI was re puted to have been murdered in the year 1478. The Crown jewels were exhibited here from 1856 up to 1939. The Tower dates from the reign of William Rufus VIEW FROM THE ;BEAUCHAMP TOWER, showing Elizabeth's Walk, where the ...
... Cog peril at sea has at last j been overcome. Just before Christmas, the Atlan tic Coast, a small merchant- I man, docked at Liverpool after a trip from the Thames which demonstrated how effectively wartime devices can be applied to the needs of peacetime. Mr. Lewis Hawes, a representative of the Daily Dispatch, wrote a graphic account of the new scientific miracle. In a box no bigger than an ...
... THE DAILY TOLL ON THE ROADS OF JAVA A TYPICAL AMBUSH LAID] BY INDONESIAN INSURGENTS ON ONE OF THE MAIK ROADS LEADING OUT OF BATAVIA. Every day casualties are reported among the British troops on the island, owing tc incidents such as this Drawing by G. Lambert This drawing indicates one of the many dangers under which the British forces in Java have beei operating. Ambushes are to be expected ...
... 1 The Christian aspect of the situation in Palestine is apt to be overlooked in the clash of arms and arguments between Arabs and Jews. The whole of this section of the Near East is full of historic sites connected with the life of Christ and the Apostles. Around Jerusalem and Bethlehem are the cradles of Christianity surrounded to-day by many stately buildings put up by British effort since ...