... Cince the end of the war in Europe, Walmer has been the busiest lifeboat station on the coasts of the British Isles, and between May 8 and December 5 1945, the Charles Dibden was actually launched twenty-two times, repeatedly doing magnificent service, particularly on behalf of the Liberty ship Leland Stanford, which went aground off the Goodwins on November 24, and the Andre Thome, which she ...

... Vermeer, whose pictures sold in shillings in his lifetime and even then could find few purchasers unless they were fraudulently listed under the names of de Hooch, Metsu, or Nicholas Maes, is to-day the victim of one of the most brilliant fakes and what is undoubtedly one of the greatest art frauds of all time. The story begins in 1936, when it was announced from Holland that a Dutch family ...

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... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Boost and Boast.-- One of the features of the Government's policy which strains my patience and tolerance is the determination of every Minister who makes a public speech to grind his party axe and make Socialist hay in the national field while the sun shines. This is a new feature of British Government. In the old days, the party axes were laid up after the ...

... A MOMENTOUS AGREEMENT AT SINGAPORE Mr. S. Aney (left), acting on behalf of H.M. Government in India, and Prince Viwatchai (right), acting on behalf of Siam signing the Peace Treaty ending the state of war between the United Kingdom and India, on the one hand, and Siam on the other The terms of the peace agreement between Britain and Siam are such that Siam loses all acquisitions of British ...

... f^hristmas Day passed without untoward incident in the Holy Land, and there was peace, if not good will, among the people of Jerusalem. On December 27, how ever, there were bomb outrages in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Tel-Aviv: in the first two cities the police head quarters being the main target of the terrorists, and in Tel- Aviv the objective was the Royal Engineers' Armoury. In Jerusalem the ...

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... VERMEER PAINTING THE LOVE LETTER Was it All Done by Mirrors? T n a chapter of great interest to all students of Dutch Art, Mr. R. H. Wilenski, in his volume An Intro duction to Dutch Art maintains that old Dutch Masters, particularly Vermeer of Delft and his school, painted indirectly from their models with the aid of mirrors. The diagram (reproduced on the left) takes an actual example, ...

... THE MYTTON TRADITION.-- The heroes of the Turf and the hunting field are in their own roseate literature much more than life-size. Whenever I have recourse to that form of sporting chronicle be it fictional or semi-official I find myself being carried away to accept their heroic proportions unquestioned. But when I put the pnrhantincr volume aside again (especially so in this austerity age), ...