... The pendulum of fashion swings from time to time upon a wider arc, and so it was in Victorian days, when the classic simplicity of the Georgian era gave way to a glad exuberance. That the legend of late Victorian vulgarity is not without foundation there is no gainsaying, but visitors to the newly-opened Exhibition of Victorian Fiction staged by John Carter at the National Book League ...

... T^e celebrated Dayton trial in the '20's, when the great William j Jennings Bryan attacked Darwinian J theories on the origin of man, will I not be forgotten in America in this j century. A few years later, when j feeling in the Middle West still ran I high and men and women were still j arguing whether man was or was not I descended from the apes, Bushman I arrived at Lincoln Park Zoo, ...

... Qince the close of the Second World War, upon which Britain lavished her wealth in the common struggle, the nation has had one major problem among a multitude of problems the problem of exports. That the narrowing of the gap between imports and exports was going too slowly, that the American loan was running out too fast, that coal production was lagging far behind requirements, were economic ...

... T is has been a bumper cricket season in England, full of colourful play and colourful personalities, men of the Compton, Edrich, Robert son, Robins variety, who have helped to give the game a new lease of life. From week to week, through the summer. The Sphere has published action pictures illustrative of various phases of the game, and those on this page, all made with the telephoto lens, ...

... Dattleships, cruisers, aircraft-carriers and destroyers, most of them vessels which had been showing the flag in foreign ports during July, were assembled in the Clyde Estuary last week for the King's two-day visit to the Hoipe Fleet. On the first day five ships were visited, and the great event was a march-past of 1 ,800 men on the deck of the carrier Illustrious. On the second day there was ...

... What has been happening in Indonesia? That is a question that not even Mr. Bevin was able to answer fully in the House of Commons last week, for the fog of war still hangs upon the battlefields of Java. What is certain is that the brief truce between the Dutch and the Indonesians, who agreed last March on an eventual co-partnership between the United States of Indonesia and the Netherlands, ...

... The renewed outbreak of terrorism throughout Palestine is directly attributable la the interception of the illegal immigrant ship President Warficld. When lie Jewish population in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Nathanya and Jerusalem heard that there We been casualties in the fight between the boarding-party and the immigrants, repraah were instituted throughout the Holy Land, Army vehicles being blown up ...

... THE CELEBRATED TEMPLE CHURCH IS TO BE RESTORED The Temple as it is to-day, completely gutted as a result of the blitz, but with a large proportion of the original fabric still intact. The Recorder of London, Sir Gerald Dodson, referred to the proposed restora tion of the shrine at the recent annual Livery Dinner of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers, who are giving a new stained- glass window. ...

... Hats off to Gloucestershire for finding themselves for a spell at the head of the Championship table; but even these stalwarts from the West will no doubt admit they have been a trifle lucky, for their rivals, Middlesex, have had to play not a few vital matches with their stars absent in Tests or other representative games. Middlesex are beyond doubt the most dashing County side in England, ...

... WHEN psychiatrists were first introduced into the three fighting Services the devastating nickname trick cyclists was immediately applied to them. Their very existence provided oppor tunities for men who were allergic to lead to get out of the Service. There was the famous story of the soldier who always broke ranks to pick up any piece of paper which happened to be near, scanned it briefly, ...

... Particulars from 8. H. Baxter, Information Bureau, Harrogate Over thirty of the Medicinal Springs for which Harro gate is famous rise in the beautiful Valley Gardens, part of which is shown above. for Health and Holidays If the state of your health demands special treatment, why not come to Harro gate for your holidays this year At the Royal Haths there are many natural medicinal waters and ...

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