23 NOVEMBER 1962, Page 17

Consuming Interest

Round the Christmas Shops

ONSUMING GROUPS throughout the On one thing, however, Consuming Groups are in full accord—that the Best Buy of all Christmas presents is the Spectator. The Spectator has, in its Consuming Interest section (conducted by Leslie Adrian and Elizabeth David), the most widely read, and most widely acted upon, household hints column obtainable today. The Spectator is a weekly magazine of comment and news, features, articles, book reviews, theatrical and musical criticism, politics, cartoons and other drawings. Its home contributors include Kingsley Amis, Denis Brogan, Nicholas Davenport, Bamber Gascoigne, Simon Raven, David Cairns and Ronald Bryden; its contributors from abroad include Sarah Gainham, Murray Kempton, Chanchal Sarkar and Darsie Gillie. The Spectator has in fact an appeal for everybody with a liking for fine writing and warm thinking and good living, for everybody with an alert mind and an interested eye—and for every- body with any Christmas-present problems.

You can send the Spectator for a year, at a below half-price rate of 30s. to as many friends, relatives, neighbours, colleagues or acquaintances as you wish, provided that they are not already regular readers. All you need to do is to fill in the coupon below (or write on plain paper if you do not want to cut the page) and send it with the appropriate amount. We do the rest—even sending a greeting card with the first copy sent, telling the new reader whom he has to thank.

Readers in USA and. Canada who prefer to remit in dollars, please send $4.50 for each subscription.

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