12 DECEMBER 1931, page 20

New Homes For Old [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

SIR, —To the questions with which Mr. Yeats .Brown has so aptly illustrated the miseries and dangers of slum life, may I add another—How would you like to live in a basement......

Betting And Gambling [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]...

" Canon Green's definition of gambling is distinctly helpful," as your correspondent in the Spectator of November 28th, writes, is no doubt correct, but when Canon Green......

The "spectator" And The English Language [to The Editor Of

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--Your editorial footnote to my letter, which you were good enough to publish in your issue of the 5th inst., was " Colonel Storr is against us : the Oxford......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

SIR,—There is an obvious difference between the principle justifying moderate drinking and that on which your corres- pondents try to justify moderate gambling. In drinking you......

Point From Letter Society Of Friends Appeal. The...

of The SOciety of Friends, Friends House, Eiiston Road, N.W. 1; - send tis a letter about their appeal for £30,000 to continue the work of - providing allotments for the......

Poetry

The Star ONE silver star seen through a latticed pane Shines like - a jewel in the velvet sky— Its small magnificence divinely formed By God's great hand. One lovely star that......

The Foundling Site .. [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

• Sin,—Mrs. Janet Trevelyan's appeal for the purchase of the Foundling Site may well lead us to recall -certain facts in the history of the institution which seem to be writ......