23 AUGUST 1935, Page 18

ENGLISH AND SPANISH

[To the Editor of TirE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am sorry if the jokes I seem to have made about Spanish national customs struck your correspondent, Senor Escudero, as misplaced. I do not remember what they were, but I have been used to regard all national laws and customs, English and foreign, as fair game for jests, and no doubt I made some, or tried to. After all, if we may not joke about one another's and our own laws and habits, what may we joke about ? I can assure Sefior Escudero that I have often visited Spain, and like both it and the Spanish very much. I have not yet been in a Spanish prison, but, as he suggests, that may be still in store for me.—Yours, &c.,

ROSE MACAULAY.