12 OCTOBER 1951, page 16

Monsieur Barrault

SIR,—It must be a disquieting experience to any but the most self-assured playgoer to find his impressions of a performance diametrically the opposite of those of an eminent......

The New Stamps

SIR,—As an amateur philatelist, may I reply to the points raised by Mr. Arnold Palmer in his letter ? The Universal Postal Union ordained that certain colours be used for the......

" The 6pectator." October 11th. 1851

The doors are finally shut upon the crowds, still eagerly desiring to gain admittance [to the Great Industrial Exhibition]. The success of this bold experiment has indeed......

Standards Of Persecution

SuL—The final paragraph of Miss Macaulay's review of John Gerard: The Autobiography of an Elizabethan seems to suggest that your reviewer does not know of the persecution of the......

Foster-homes

SI X —As a trained social-worker and mother of children I read with -great interest the article, The Defence of the Child, by Dame Myra Curtis. It is true that children are......

Dancing Teachers

SIR,—I do not understand, why Janus considers that the fact of a teacher of dancing possessing four - degrees in her profession is worthy of com- ment. The lady he mentions will......