A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK"
Sot,—I expect that journalists receive more brickbats than bouquets from correspondents to their papers, so perhaps I may be allowed to say that as long as you can persuade "Janus" to do his little bit I shall continue to subscribe to your excellent periodical.
How unanswerable his remarks about the T.C.D. Library. How ingenious his suggestion that the Dominions Office should swallow its colleague of India. How fair his comments on Sir Stafford and the Soviets, and how admirable his invention of the S.P.C.E
And as I am writing; might I be allowed another word or two about your other contributors? I discovered not long ago, like Mr. Siegfried Sassoon, that the moment had arrived to re-read The Dynasts. Sir Walford Selby's views seem most convincing. I always think that " Strategicus's " impressions of the war are sound, but I wish that my military knowledge was sufficient to make me more sure of it. I am sorry Mr. Harold Nicolson will not allow me to show off my supenority to the B.B.C. announcer when I happen to know the correct pronunciation of some unfamiliar place, but I do feel that a "Medical Student" thinks too much of his own particular difficulties. Would he be equally generous to the young man advancing to that still more essential profession, the Bar? The road is nearly as long and as expensive as for the "medical student," and when he eventually emerges fully fledged the young barrister generally finds that his remuneration is considerably less than that of all his contemporaries, whether soldiers, sailors, civil servants, parsons, doctors, engineers or schoolmasters.—Yours faithfully, Kimsbury House, near Gloucester. J. W. PERCIVAL.
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