28 MAY 1948, Page 5

A word more on stamps. A reader in New Zealand

(who gets his air-mail edition of The Spectator in seven days) has sent me a letter adorned with no fewer than ten current postage stamps of different denominations, of nine different designs, every one of them in my view superior, and some of them markedly superior, to any current British stamps. Need we disdain to learn from the