19 MARCH 1927, page 20

Short Letters

THE NEW VILLAGE. As a member of a Parish Council, I am sorry to confess that ours, at any rate, is a failure. I have been a member for two years, but fail to remember any single......

The Last Quartets [to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sir,—the

last paragraph of Mr. Basil Maine's article on Beet- hoven was truly unfortunate. He rightly objects to that obnoxious kind of Beethoven exegesis which describes the last......

Educating The Indian Woman

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It has often been said that India to-day stands in greater need of social reform than of political reform. .Those who are most anxious to......

A . Free Spectator

Ma. C. J. T. MACKIE Writes that he will be pleased to forward his Spectator to anyone who is unable to obtain ii in the ordinary way. Will anyone desiring or caring to rryall......