13 NOVEMBER 1953, Page 5

Next Week's Spectator

Next week's issue of the " Spectator " will be the special Christmas Number, of 72 pages. It will contain the first of a new series of Weekly articles by Compton Mackenzie. Harold Nicolson makes one of his occasional reappearances in the paper. Other articles will be contributed by Dr. J. Bronowski, D.W. Brogan, John Arlon, Joyce Grenfell, Jules Menken and Desmond Henn. The literary pages will include special articles by Peter Fleming, on Sir John Hunt's book "The Ascent of Everest," and Richard Hughes, on Virginia Woolf's Diaries. Other reviewers will include Gilbert Murray 0.M., Rex Warner, Bonamy Dobree, Ludovic Kennedy, Emma Smith, Kingsley Amis and J. D. Scott.