11 AUGUST 1950, page 18

Sir,—has The Spectator Established A Journalistic Record...

exquisite article What is it Like to be Old ? by Mr. Theodore Taylor who celebrated his hundredth birthday last week? If so, you are to be doubly congratulated.—Yours......

Schizophrenia

SIR,—R. D. (barques, in his remarks on Janko Lavrin's "approach" to Ibsen, notes that this author labels Ibsen a schizophrenic " like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard......

Russia's Armed Forces •

SIR.—Mr. Cole has chosen population as a standard for assessing the adequacy of the military strength of a nation, and on this basis be proceeds to show that " the figures of......

Professor Saintsbury

SIR, I was much interested in the article in the Spectator of July 21st which dealt with the work of Professor George Saintsbury. In this article the writer says, " I am curious......

Lascaux •

SIR, May another pilgrim this summer to the cave at Lascaux add an unscientific but very simple suggestion of its original use? The ordinary visitor goes to see these......

The Spectator

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Mr. Theodore Taylor

SIB. —You have done us all a service by publishing Mr. Theodore Taylor's charming essay on old age. Mr. Taylor writes with decent restraint, and slips naturally into the third......

Prison For Sex Offences

Sm.—"Social Student," too, is right to begin with. Most people do abhor the habits of " biological aberrationals " (though I hope this monstrous phrase won't find its way into......

C4 English Cathedrals "

Stir,—Reading the review of English Cathedrals in your Issue of July 28th, I was indeed surprised at your reviewer's remarks. Surely English publications on the great cathedrals......