12 JANUARY 1934, page 20

A Hundred Years Ago " The Spectator," January 11th, 1834.

The published accounts of the Revenue to the 5th January, exhibit a decrease on the year as compared with 1832, amounting to 442,4941; on the quarter, of 91,5471. The......

British And Foreign Shipping

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] • Sin,—Let me assure Sir Karl Knudsen that my letter was not written in any spirit of prejudice and to suggest to him that the legend is of his......

Poem

IT is not what they acted, Nor their scenes so often said, Nor what our sensible eye repeats, Performing on its mental screen. Such photographs we forget : Significance eludes......

Malnutrition And Lunacy

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My long-held conviction that malnutrition and mental illness are correlated—that is, that malnutrition itself is a direct cause of......

Children And Literature

[To the Editor of Tun SPECTATOR.] Sm,—I am writing a book on the subject of Children and Literature, and I should be most grateful if you would permit me the use of your......

Lord Oxford And Macaulay's Essays

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, Mr. J. A. Spender, in The Spectator of December 1st, in his review of Lord Oxford's Letters to a Friend, refers to a copy of Macaulay's......