... THE PYRENEES from the Cote Basque to the Cote Vermeille on the Mediterranean offer all the year round holiday enjoyment under a southern sun. For further details apply to any Travel Agent or to the French National Tourist Office, 179, Piccadilly, London, W.l v J o^v vAfr |}j|=j=|j== Modern medical science ...

... 0 Qg v cKaP0 THE situation as regards the 1949 classics is so far normal. The pattern is being woven on lines to which we have become accustomed during the last few years. Candidates for the Two Thousand Guineas are having their preliminary races, avoiding one another whenever possible. Not more than two or three of them appear to be fancied. There is the usual speculation as to their capacitv ...

... patting Trustful, the pony ridden by his sister, Princess Alexandra, in the Children's Horse Show and Gymkhana at Iver village on Easter Monday. The awards were presented by the Duchess of Kent, who was able to hand her daughter a second-prize rosette for her riding in one of the classes. The Duke, who is at Eton, was fourteen last year, and Princess Alexandra is a year younger. Their brother, ...

... Racing Enthusiasts Gather tor the Reopening of Newbury Enclosures were Crowded for the Inaugural Two-Day Meeting at this Popular Coursi Star King (T. Burn up) returning from the course after winning the important Greenham Stakes L). L. Jones on Big Wig smiles broadly after winning the Spring Maiden Stakes Col. and the Hon. Mrs. James Junes and the Hon. Mrs. David Bethcll discuss the running ...

... HER SOCIAL JOURNAL Court IRewe: Both the Presentation Parties at Buckingham Palace next month will be attended by the King, according to present indications from Windsor, where His Majesty is making progress towards recovery. Though the Royal doctors are somewhat reluctant to commit themselves, there is every reason to believe, too, that the King will be able to take part in the open-carriage ...

... ^Prisci/Cdcc in. Stars at the Midnight Circus There have been eighteen other such galas yet every year it seems more wonderful AT a marionette show one day, I saw a tiny child throw her arms round her mother's neck in order to drag her closer to the edge of the dress circle where they sat, ecstatically crying as she did so: Oh! Look! Look! Look! The other night, at the annual Fête de l'Union ...

... PART! FOR THE El ARM! AIR FORCE On the Occasion of Their Headquarters Moving from Bushy Park to Ruislip Lt. D. J. S. Ashley, R.N., one of the many Services guests, and his wife leave the dance floor to seek refreshment Mrs. S. L. Simpson dancing with General Leon Johnson. The party was held at the Simpson Services Club Col. J. H. lsbell Col. B. L. Riggs and Mrs. Riggs discuss the problems of ...

... , F. J. Goodman whose biography of his great-grandfather, The Life and Times of Coventry Patmore (Constable; 15s.), has just been published, has an extensive knowledge of the Middle East, where he was a newspaper correspondent for some years. Author, playwright and translator, his work includes The Star and the Crescent, poems from the Turkish, and books on Greece and Rumania. His next volume, ...

... THEY WERE MARRIED The Tatler's Review M illigan Adlard The wedding took place at Tilford, Surrey, between Mn Thomas Edgar M illigan, .son of the late Rev. and Mrs. G. Milligan, of Comity Cavan, Ireland, and Miss Susan Amy Horsfall Adlard, daughter of Col. and Mrs. Leonard S. Adlard, of Bishton, Farnham, Surrey E. C. Griffith H ex t Holman Mr. John William Hext son of Mr. A. C. Hext of ...

... 181 , LONDON, We announce the opening i of our ne w Furniture Galleries on the Fourth Floor. ij'ORTNDMm^ MASON jpT 181 , W.I. REGent 8040 ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Great Dock Strike --It began in 1888. It was hailed in subsequent history as the winner of the Charter of Trades Unionism. The tanner-an-hour strike had four main issues: (1) the four-hours minimum term of employment; (2) the employers' right to engage labour at any hour; (3) contract work let to private contractors who tended to pay less than the company; ...

... In the archaeological wor, all eyes are turned to-i on Sakkara, with its sepn chral monuments represer: ing nearly every period: Egyptian history. Saldar, has a new importance; fo as a result of the finds mad by Mr. Walter Emery intl '30's it is now realised tls it is the true buria -placet the First Dynasty rulers, an that the so-called ombsi Abydos, for all the r magn licence, are really ...