ALL ARTADI)AM SlR,---J tist how sin illniindtlvCId CI.II ii I -\ R 5i5. lbCcci1le'? The Archbishop ot Y'or k souchIl lob idge thc gulf bet¢ween Ia vIst 1111 ,ni ; L ot...

NAPOLEON BRANI)Y Sii,--Mr. T'. A. La yton asks to be told wha:lt on cA th Na poleon has to do with Cognac 'Ihe bricl' answer is: niothing. If any brandy sLivivcdci from N...

REL:1.U CTAN'T PEFIKR Smt,--- Some months ago yoo were so kind as to publish a letter fronm the sponsors of the lBristol loudnd set tip to help Mr. Anthony Wedgwood 3el1n meet...

STARVING TO DEATH I is relaIted Or JOhn 13fl1 rr11nlore that o nce, Playing aI dlLCI-SCCIIC ill Thie Crsiunzt ll?,o/.sth at the elld Of Which hie waS SuLppo)Sed to be uLnil...

F-Portrait of the Week- 111; \\wo'Ri[) didnflt coflC to ali end on Mnt)flhy, ns iliophesied by Vcctarin Indian a (a S Nor wa;s lb. zc n ucLC ol Of a London U ndcrl{ euwnnd sAi...

Company Notes M s R. JIACK ADI)INSLLL rCports to his shaie.villold-dCS ill two, o[ tile Companies of which he is chlailr11 1. IIc iS nolt Unduly distUrbcd aboLlt the lower...

Historama Daily Life in France under Napoleon. By Jean Robiquet. (Allen and Unwin, 25s.) Daily Life in the Vienna of Mozart and Schubert. By Marcel Brion. (Weidenfeld and...

Investment Notes Bty CU ST OS fir 'x.orn in the gilt edoed nlrarkct was overT deu. It is the old qLreslionf of suIpply anid dcrland. The banks are no longer sellers: the...

PROBATE, I)IVORCE, AND) ADMIRALTY Sw,-Mr. R. A. C line is surely tinder some misapprehension in his article 'Probate D)ivorce and Admiralty.' In the first place, in advocating...

COMM IT'Ei'i 01,'I00-PLUS SIR,--A few weeks ago I wrote you a lcttcr alttackling the Spectator's Christmas editorial. B3ecaiise in attacking what lies behind the Spclatlor's...

PR Siim,--l think Mr. Nigel Ellis of Messrs. Erwin, Wasey, Ruthratill' and Ryan owes me an apology. I have nelVe, undcr any alias, asked his firm for inuformation nor0 shown...

1'IIE BREAlIT F1 LIFE' Smi,-The Spectator makes good rcading, hut from firc to time I am Clisqdietcd lest articles on other topics ale as ill-informcd and mislcading as those...

Sjim,--As D~r. D. C. Wilkins's confirmation of Charles Gibbs-Smnith's 'quaint' views on the attitudc Of the medical profession deliberate'? Dr. Wilkins implies that, the...

Goodbye to Summer By DESMOND FENNELL IN the 1830s a Siwedish writer could tell his fellow-countrytmen that Swedish poverty flves a byword in E'uropc and that their strength...

The Burden of Richles '1he floor-tiles of the Big House are slippery,' says ani Irish proverb. And Horace preferred his little farm in the Sabi ne hills to 'most buIrden1some...

Raw Democracy Wilkes and Liberty. By Gcorgc Rud165. (O. U. P., 30s.) I)R. RuDI'l 1Ru imst be accounted uluLIcky. lie has investigated the background to Wilkes ill thle...

Ruling the Waves A Naval Ilistory of England. Vol. 1, The Formative Centuries. By G. J. N1l11 CLXs. (Lorinigans, 63s.) THEIRE have been, within memory, many excellent short...

The Card of Hope IFrom DARSI E (CILLIEiJ 1 AdIS O N of Prcsidcnt dc GIlleS IllelitS Is itlways to see immediate cvents, however alarming 'Ined LnplrlCeasant, against a very...

Heart and Head L Ns Tuesday's debate oln 131ri:tifs attil Lide toLval.as the UN did Iln ot produLcc anly very new or startling reflections on1 thlat organisation. Indeed, it...

SmIt,-- It's the sheer, tulluishinlg scif- righllCteusnICss of advertising mien that gets ine. If they were honest enough to say 'We're raking in the lolly and living like...

KENYA Sit,- lrofessor Robert A. Manners has written a most important article, as sobering to foolish optimism about the future of Kenya as it is forthright in its statement of...

ADVIRTISING AND PEOPLE SIR,-Might I make a contributioll to Mr. J. II. Butterfield's investigation into how advertising can be improved'? Accepting that they do perform a...

French Views of French Planning By RIICHARD BAILEY T HlE French planning system has been held up so often as a model for Mr. Selwyn Lloyd's National Economic Developmcnt...

Child Bride IHIrriet Slleylc: I'ivc long Years. By Louise SChitz 130.Is. (O. U.P., 30s.) BREAKING the long run of biographies of the second Mrs. Shelley--seven since...

Tongues of Men Studies in Three Literatures. By M. R. Ridley. (Dent, 30s.) THE idea that (liflerent languages have their own specific shaping power, that there is in each...

BOOKS Exuberant Chancellor The 13d RO Y .1 1'N K I N S \ OSl p)Oli'iclIlilS f al ;11 implortanceu llO\V lM l thinlk it desirable to poducc ;., least Onw Volumnle ol'...

Tho Canal War The Road to Suez. By Lrskinc 13. Childers. (Ma ac- Gibbon and Kee, 30s.) MlR. IL RSKIN1I` CHILDFRS is a first-rate journalist. l-ie has sonie of the instincts...

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