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Long Corridor

WAS it Aldous. Huxley who suggested that most travel books must have been mork: enjoyable to write than they are to read? -The same could be said of acres of abstract or......

Mansfield Park

Sta,—Mr. Kingsley Amis, in his extremely provoca- tive and perceptive review of Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen, does less than justice to the novelist in concluding that she......

Le Dernier Cri Sir,-_.4 Hope I Am Not Too Late

in submitting a quota- tion which speaks for many of us on the butter- 'maggie' question. It is from Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy L. Sayers (1933): '... and they like a cow......

Sir,—so, Mr. Ray Is' Npw Reduced To Scraping, The Bottom

of his barrel and indulges in some mud- slinging. I shall not endeavour to compete with him at this game, but will merely remark in conclusion 'Les chiens aboient . . . la cara......

Sir,—pharos's Remarks About Mr. A. F. J. Redda- Way In

your issue of September 27 were ill-founded as well as ill-mannered. Among other things, Pharos described the Administrative Secretary of Cyprus as 'a man with so little......

Contemporary Arts

Vaughan Williams TOMORROW Vaughan Williams will be eighty-five. The likelihood of his drying up seems as remote on the eve of his birthday as ever it did twenty years ago, if......