14 AUGUST 1953, page 18

James Joyce

SIR,—I am engaged in writing a biography of James Joyce, to be published in America by the Oxford University Press, and I should be very grateful if any of your readers who were......

Privilege In Education

SIR,—The better quality of teachers in schools other than State schools is not and has not been by any means a matter either of salaries or formal qualifications. Many boys are......

Horatio Bottomley

SIR,—I am gathering material for a biography of the late Horatio Bottomley, and should very much like to hear from anybody who has any personal reminiscences of him. I am......

Poetry Competition

SIR,—Perhaps readers of the Spectator may be interested to hear of the Poetry Competition now being organised by Varsity, the Cambridge Undergraduate newspaper, which is to be......

Eric, Or Little By Little

SIR,—I haven't got a copy of the immortal work at hand, but I feel sure Mr. Horace Wyndham has misrepresented it. The words " Gordon is a surly devil " were not spoken at all......

Have Followed This Correspondence With Interest. The Most...

about the independent schools is, it seems to me, that they are independent, and therefore a bulwark against the domination of the State. Correspondents have already dealt with......

Why Penalise The Pensioners ?

SIR,—The necessity of more production has been, quite rightly, urged upon us ever since 1945 and successive Chancellors have aimed at giving incentives. Can any responsible......

Letters To The Editor

China and the UN SIR,—Discussions about the representatiOn of China in the United Nations have revealed a misconception of the nature and purposes of the United Nations. It is......