Table Talk
Sir: I should like to differ 'with' Sir Denis Brogan (31 January)—and his informant— on a point of midwestern sociology. As a native Minnesotan of impeccable Scandin- avian......
Competition
No. 592: Suffer not gladly Set by W. F. N. Watson: 'Bright as the day, and as the morning fair, Such Clod is—and common as the air.' The sharply satirical epigram, or......
Middle Class, Preserve Us
Sir: Ferdinand Mount in 'Personal column' (31 January) characterises Governor Reagan's 'seen one redwood, seen 'em all' as immortal words. But the Governor merely paraphrases......
Ancient And Modern
Sir: Meddlers with ancient saws, pray pause— For 'thine' sounds more divine than 'yours' And 'thou' and 'Thee', than 'you', to me. Leave me a little poetry— Change just for the......
Bridgwater's Last Chance
Sir: Mr Auberon Waugh (31 January) ad- mits that Parliament does not represent general public opinion on the Common Market, hanging or immigration. This, of course, is perfectly......
Fair Copy
Sir: Professor Clarence Brown, in his review of a book on Tolstoy (7 February), raises a point about the nature of translation, and indeed of language, when he says: 'Obvi-......
Disturbed But Not Put Out
Sir: Is not your reviewer, Carola Oman (7 February), rather hard on Countess Bertrand when she dubs her 'this silly Creole'? On the debit side, perhaps, there is her love of......
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