ONE OF THE LETTERS Which have come in recently to
the Spectator's sales depart- ment expressing pleasure at the new size and format (as I have said already, we like it too; but technical and financial considerati,ons combine to make it im- possible to continue with it indefinitely) was from a public school in the Home Counties; and the writer added, 'this morning I sat the General Paper of the Combined Oxford and Cambridge GCE Board. I would like to say that without having read the Spectator for the last 12 months I would have been unable to answer at least two of the six questions which I felt to be easy'. Curiosity has since impelled me to find out from him what the two questions were :
1. 'When a novelist has a social, political or other theoretical axe to grind he ceases to be a novelist and becomes a propagandist'. Dis- cuss, with examples.
2. Has trade unionism outlived its usefulness? Give reasons for your opinion.
I had not, I must confess, previously thought of the Spectator in the light of a scholar's vade-mecum; very gratify- ing!
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