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Sia,—dr. Purcell's Letter In Your Last Issue Must Surely...

convinced doubters, if there still were any, that Strix was perfectly right in using the word 'vindictive' to describe his extraordinary campaign against General Templer and all......

2 ,- -when Mr. David Henschel Writes To You T Hat "...

is undemocratic," does he just m ean that people of intellect are not the I ntellectual equals of people without it, or is some other complexity involved ? In any case, the......

No Priests For England.

C. Archer Wallington in his letter is In error in thinking that I was gibing at the bisho p s , What 1 was trying to bring out was that w e have somehow got out of touch with t......

Spce

I don't mind what the pundits say about condu:ts; but I hope they will not insist upon Eros. What becomes of the music of ' Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done' if the......

Musical Shakespeare

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 207 Report by Joyce Johnson Readers were invited to submit a song (or extract from it) from the libretto of a new version of The Merchant of Venice, As......

Readers Are Invited (for The Usual Prizes) To Submit A

letter of protest by any one of the following, addressed to a journal of his day, guilty of an unfavourable review of one of his works: Byron, Coleridge, Ben Jonson, Macaulay,......