... 2^ D. B. Windham Lewis FEW spectacles (talking of gypsies) could provide less excitement than the old Romany rite of destroying a deceased gypsy queen's caravan by fire, which event the Fleet Street boys did their best to work up into a romantic story the other day. The arch-liar Borrow is to blame, no doubt, for what shreds of glamour still surround the Romany chal in this country. Four ...

... I>. B. Wyndliam Lewis ALTHOUGH the Angels of Mons did not sting the soldiery, they may be said to belong to the same military folklore-group as the Wild Bees of Tanga, of whom a sardonic chap was reminding Auntie Times recently. Contrary to the Race's fixed belief, these bees were not trained by Von Lettow-Vorbeck's experts, using tripwires, to attack our troops in flank at the battle of Tanga ...

... R. C. Robertson-Glasgow NEXT Saturday is the day of St. Valentine, patron Saint of shy lovers. So, resisting an imperious urge to tell you about the racing over the sticks at bonny Manchester and to forecast the winner of the Senior Schoolgirls' Fencing Championship, I am sending out a few Open Valentines. So, you can either look over my shoulder or lose some money at Kempton Park. C'est égal, ...

... THE lessees of the Hippodrome and the Coliseum had best look to their laurels. At the Irving Theatre, on a stage the size of a pocket handkerchief, there is a play in fifteen scenes with twenty-one characters, complete with song and dance, a high moral tone and the most despicable villain now at large m the Metropolis. Patrons who take exception to his black deeds may hiss, boo and pelt this ...

... WITH I. BICKERSTAFF JUST what to offer guests at early evening At Homes is always something of a problem. We know such affairs, of course, as cock tail parties nowadays, although not always are cocktails served. I am a great admirer of the dry martini cocktail in particular, but it needs expert mixing, and this is what it often does not get in the hurly burly of a party. Either far too ...

... DINING II I T I. BKKEKSTVFF THERE was some criticism recently of the flying over of foods and wines from Paris for a French Film Festival in London. For the simple reason that the French happened to be the hosts and were paying the piper, I cannot wholly agree with the criti cisms; but of the alleged flying of the wines chosen, with the wine-waiters to serve them, I am entirely at one with the ...

... I). It. tVyndhani Lewis THAT little recent difference of opinion between the Honourable Artillery Company's gunners and a battery which failed to fire a Royal salute, owing to defective ammunition drawn from the Tower, would equally (a sympathetic American spectator was assuring us) have embarrassed the Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, Mass., a unit nearly as ancient and distinguished. ...