11 FEBRUARY 1966, page 14

H110 Nierm

The Angus Maude of Literature? By EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH I DON'T know whether to be stunned or amused. I little thought, when the SPECTATOR approached me for an article supporting......

Trans-sib

SIR, —Here on this small island thirty miles at sea –notable among other things for the fact that the eighteenth-century ancestors of us Tuppers, Coffins and Starbucks would......

More Logomachy

SIR commend most enthusiastically (difficult word this) your inclusion of the word 'chiliastic.' Our language is so rich and we should welcome every stimulus to its fuller use......

Blunden Versus Lowell

SIR,—Poor Mr. Lucie-Smith has been knocked clean out of the ring by five angry lightweights. He needs a second in his corner to wipe his wounds. Let me declare myself at once: I......