... The erection of scaffolding for carrying out repairs to the slightly bomb- damaged Chapel of Henry the Seventh in Westminster Abbey, provides an oppor tunity for the camera to record the elaborate beauty of the architecture, so superb in its wealth of sculptural detail. The fabric of the Chapel was subjected to heavy blast from a bomb which fell in neighbourins Old Palace Yard, but for ...

... PERSIA, the cockpit of the Middle East, is almost entirely unknown to the average Englishman. In actual fact, it is bounded on the north by the Caspian Sea and the Caucasian and Turkestan territories of the U.S.S.R., on the south by the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea, on the east by Afghanistan and Baluchistan, and on the west by Turkey and Iraq. Its area is about 628,000 square miles in ...

... The high-speed camera, adjusted to speeds of i/io,oooth of a second, is a never-failing source of inter est, and in the past The Sphere has often reproduced records of what the camera sees but the eye is not quick enough to appreciate. This latest series comes from New York, and the cameraman has shown exactly what hap pens at the moment of im pact when various household objects are dropped to ...

... 7*\n April I gigantic tidal waves coming from the area of submarine earthquakes in Alaska roared across the Pacific a| 500 miles an hour, spreading deatk and destruction in their path. Triple waves, nearly 100 ft. high, swept nearly a mile inland on the Hawaiian islands, killing and in juring several hundreds of people, while in Honolulu harbour ship- ping was piled on the foreshore in ...

... Of all the holy places connected with the Easter story and the last days of Christ, the Garden of Gethsemane is probably held in most veneration by the Christian. The garden now belongs to the Fran ciscan monks, and it is always tended with the most loving care. Leading over the Mount of Olives are several roadways, and that on the left of the picture is the way to Bethany. It was along that ...

... ■Thursday I And they took counsel to- I gether that they might take I Jesus by subtility, and kill him. But they said, not I during the feast lest a tumult I arise among the people.' St. Matthew XXVI, 5. I AND they came unto a place which was named g Gethsemane. -St. Mark XIV, 32. ■Friday And the whole company of I them arose up, and brought him before Pilate. And they began to accuse him ...

... THE VIRGIN AND ST. JOHN A sixteenth-century sculptural work in boxwood from the Netherlands shown in the Victoria and Albert Museum's Exhibition, Style in Sculpture, which is now being held in the main entrance-hall of the Museum and is attracting much admiring attention. This piece belongs to the period when Gothic art was giving way to the ideas of the Renaissance, and a freer and more ...

... Bodies of elegance and faultless craftsmanship built individually to customers' exact requirements by coach- builders of more than a century's experience and con tinuous service to the Royal House. A wide range of Rolls-Royce, Daimler, Bentley and other makes, in normal times, will be on view in our famous St. James's Street Showrooms. In the meantime we can offer a fine selection of pre-war ...

... Highland Oueen GRAND LIQUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY BilP-- I Jainoui Q U E E N S bij jainaui ^illaSlctcS MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS by Jean le Court (National Portrait Gallery) by 0 Ilia On those proud features royalty has set its stamp, indefinable, yet unmistakable to any eye. And in Highland Queen Grand Liqueur there is a blend of choice flavours which establishes this as the sovereign of all fine ...

... i, New Oxford Strf.et, W.C.i. Foreign Policy.-- Mr. Bevin is certainly not an orator. In England in the last two centuries we have been perhaps too prone to connect oratory with statesmanship, and ac cordingly the reputation of statesman ship has suffered. It has come to mean vox et prœterea nihil, a nicely balanced formula or two, signifying nothing. It 's the brass tacks, not the gilt ...

... KEEPING A CHECK ON HAMBURG'S BLACK MARKET Belgians attached to the British military police checking identity papers and searching suspects in the streets of the city. Since the imposition of the new ration scale in Germany, Black Market operations have increased markedly, and food off the ration is now selling at fantastic prices. Looting of food delivery vans and railway trucks has occurred ...

... i nmmm B 1 L Y I rri L'J IFt 1 1 kM fc'i II I I ViliJi LI/ i ■MnritMiflm THE TARGET SHIPS ASSEMBLE AT PEARL HARBOUR Vessels, which will form part of the guinea-pig fleet in the coming atom bomb tests, gathered together at America's mid-Pacific base before leaving for Bikini Atoll, where the tests will take place, probably in June n ^xaHMVKcayF ■mKm- t i A LAST LOOK ON A HALLOWED SPOT Young ...