There has been a great falling-off in the number of visitors to Stratford-on-Avon, and it is expected that a new and fuller Life of the Bard will shortly be published.
A Surrey soldier, writing from The Garden of Eden, says, "I think it is a rotten hole, and I don't blame Adam for getting thrown out." Still it is rather late to plead extenuating circumstances.
"James —— was remanded at the Thames Police Court on a charge of stealing nine boxes of Beecham's pills, valued at £5."—The Times.
So little? What about those advertisements?
"I was surprised to hear of Baron Heyking's dismissal from his post of Russian Consul-General in London. I had only been talking to him the day before—and then came his dismissal by telegram!"—"Candide," in "The Sunday Pictorial."