R. P. Bonington Sir,—i Am Preparing A Biographical And...
study of the English painter R. P. Bonington (1808-28), and shall be extremely grateful if you will allow me the courtesy of your columns to in- quire whether any of your......
The Lost Tribes Of Reading Sir,—your Correspondent Mr. G. H.
Nicholson might like to know that after reading Monica Furlong's article 'The Lost Tribes of Reading' I sent several copies of it to friends. We all obtained his little booklet......
Edible Fungi
SIR,—Readers of Leslie Adrian's 'Consuming Interest' article on mushrooms and toadstools may be interested to know not only of Messrs. Collins's forthcoming book but also of......
'the House'
SIR,—How pleasant it was to read Lothbury's very sane criticism of the House. I fear, however, that it will take far more than a charter to correct the shortcomings of that......
Ronald Knox's New Testament
SIR,—The correspondence about Mgr. Knox's trans- lation of Matthew i, 25, does not, as Mr. Currie im- plies, rest on the existence of an Aramaic manuscript, though this is well......
Sir,—assuming For The Purposes Of Argument That Matthew...
fact the author of the gospel as we have it, it is surprising that in this one instance he lapsed into thinking in Hebrew in his use of ews (until) when on all other occasions......
Von Hofmannsthal
SIR,—In an article about Fischer Verlag in the Spectator of November 3 you say 'Sigmund Freud and Hugo von Hofmannsthal—both Jews, and both Viennese.' Of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's......
The Untruth About Beethoven
SIR,—It hardly seems possible, but there must be some sort of continuity between the man who wrote In Memory of W. B. Yeats and the smug, Bowdler- ised public figure who reviews......
British Made
SIR, —I can't follow in silence any longer Mr. Ray's suitcase saga, in which he describes sad departures of handles from cases made by Revelation and Antler. Last year Shopper's......
Trail Sinister
SIR,—I thank Cyril Ray for drawing attention to the contrast between Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge's review of Sefton Delmer's Trail Sinister in the Observer and Mine in the Sunday......
The Reinhart Collection
SIR,—I have just read the admirable analysis of the Bilhrle Collection by Hugh Graham in your October 6 issue. In it, the author refers to the other great Swiss private......
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