16 NOVEMBER 1934, page 20

Smoking In. Theatres [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

• am a heavy pipe smoker, but I do not smoke in theatres. Not only is it rough on the non-smokers ; the incessant coughing which it causes among these' is rough on everybody.......

Judges And Sermons

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The following story may interest " Janus " (see page 558) and your readers. In, I think, 1872, my uncle (the late Rev. Joshua Greaves,......

The Wild God's Gift

HOLY and beautiful lie The bare fields brimmed with sky, But on Barrow Hill thresh Sadly some tall ash-trees weary of the flesh;. Restless mind caught in a mesh. They wish, and......

A German Invasion

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On Sunday, November I I th, we wanted simply ,to think of our own. We thought it was not in the best of taste that a body of young Germans......

History With A Purpose

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In my review of Mr. Ramsay Muir's Brief History of Our Own Times I stated that he was guilty of five serious errors and one technical......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sm,—your Correspondent,...

G. Sym, of Edinburgh, in your issue of November 9th, on the subject of counties and shires, says : " Wherever the County Town is the same as that of the County, the termination......

Counties And Shires

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your last correspondent attacks the use of the word Argyllshire as the name of that county. I would like to point out that there is a......