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Re-establishing The Tradition Sm,—may I Briefly Explain...

the Looking Forward exhibi- tion at the Whitechapel Gallery. It seems to me that Mr. Middleton missed it. He complains that I " released no new hares from the trap." Yet such a......

The Church Of South India

SIR,—May I thank Bishop Hollis for his moving account of the first five years of the Church of South India. I believe that many laymen like myself see in the great act of faith......

The Japanese _ Sir,—those - Who Remember Japan As Our

brave and loyal comrade in the First World War will have read with regret the calumnies directed by Strix against the Japanese people in the Spectator of September 26th. None of......

Mr. Kirkup's Poems

SIR, —May I be allowed to correct Mr. Abercrombie on a purely fac- tual point ? In his amiable notice of my book, A Correct Compas- sion and Other Poems, he gives the impression......

The Clergy's Wage

SIR,—In your paragraph The Clergy's Wage " last week, concerning a " solution "(?) of the problem, a friend tells me of a method used in another province of the Anglican......

A Bet On The General

SIR,—A friend of mine recently told me that he had seen an item in a New York newspaper that the betting odds in England as of now were three to one on Governor Stevenson. 1 can......

Divorce

SIR,—May 1 add evidence to what is stated by Professor Norman Sykes and the Bishop of Down and Dromore in your issue of September 3rd ? In 1917 Archbishop Davidson not only gave......

66 B.m.g."

Sia,—Surely the symbol " B.M.G." (Balfour Must Go) was the cause, not the consequence of the Conservative debacle of 1906. After the debacle Mr. Balfour made a striking return......

Sinclair Lewis

Sia,—Under the will of Sinclair Lewis all of his manuscripts, letters and other private papers were bequeathed to the Yale University Library, and, under a contract which the......