15 MAY 1936, page 22

The Journey

FIRST in the North : The black sea-tangle beaches, Brine-bitter stillness, tablet strewn morass, Shawled women against the sky with heads covered, The witch's house below the......

English Places

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have been interested by the review in your issue of May 8th by Miss Macaulay of the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Plare Names.......

- Miss Macaulay And The Articles [to The Editor Of

THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —As your May 1st issue of The Spectator was one of your best, it ill becomes one to find a fly in the ointment. And as Macaulay found it so distasteful to......

Si R,—

" I came not to send peace on earth but a sword." If you will accept Erasmus as a competent exegete then here is what Erasmus wrote : " And now when the summe of all that Christ......