17 APRIL 1953, page 20

Summing-up And Down

In '53, as you recall, they raised the Judges' pay Not by tax-free " expenses," but the regulation way. ach got five thousand more -a year—a thousand net, in brief; It came to......

Blue African "lilies"

SIR, --If Mr. Kirkbride is going to allow every member of the liliaceae to be called a lily, we shall get into sad confusion; if an , agapanthus is to be called a lily, why not......

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Art And The Abstract

Sta,—It has been stated that no one in his senses doubts that there is good realistic art as well as goOd . abstract art. Would it dot be more realistic to accept that all great......

Lionel Johnson

SIR, —Your reviewer, J. M. Cohen, in his criticism (March 27th) of The Complete Poems of Lionel Johnson, edited by Idin Fletcher, shows as little sympathy as he does......

Se Faire •casser

Sta,—I am sorry that Mr. Hare takes exception to my one adverse criticism, a minor one, of his excellent translation of Vigny's master- piece, but I must assert again that in......