14 NOVEMBER 1952, Page 10

Next week's "Spectator" will be a special Christmas Number and

will contain articles by Sir Henry Bashford, St. John Ervine, Peter Fleming, Tom Hopkinson, Nicholas Monsarrat, Lord Tweedsmuir, Sir Frederick Whyte; a discussion of some aspects of the novel by Joyce Cary and Emyr Humphreys; reviews by Max Beloff, Laurence Irving, Margaret Lane. Marghanita Laski, James Laver, Charles Morgan, Eric Partridge; a page of poetry by Christopher Morley; and poems by Dr. C. A. Alington and Justin Richardson.