17 NOVEMBER 1923, page 14

Can The Farmer Save Himself?

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. 13urkitt, has asked me to reply to two questions : (1) Is it true that a monopolist body fixes and maintains......

Primitive Peoples And Simple Language.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to the question raised by "A Dutch Sea Captain" in the Spectator of October 18th, viz., that "people without any schooling......

Poetry.

AUTUMN DUSK. Oun field looks strange in this half-light, With grey grass stumbling out of sight To some far hedge. The wind-comes here - From woods where the brown cold year......

A Correction.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] shall be much obliged if you will allow me to correct a verbal slip on line 11 of my letter on the subject of the foreign trade of Denmark......

Extracts Prom Letters.

THE Poon Als - D THE LAW.—Mr. Robert E. Noble writes :— " For a long time it has been argued that there is little esprit de .cops among solicitors and that lawyers generally are......