1 NOVEMBER 1940, page 17

Children From Europe

Sm,—May I commend to all humane persons the suggestion of Madame de Marcellus that refugee children should be evacuated from all European countries to the U.S.A. or to the......

Mr. Priestley's Broadcasts Sir,—it Was With Infinite...

heard across the radio that Mr. J. B. Priestley has himself decided to bring to an end those talks to which so many of us have looked forward week by week. Mr. Priestley's......

Awaiting Invasion

Six,—Your correspondent Mary Fisher's most interesting letter on the subject of the Norman invasion of England, and on King Harold's ill-fated plans to frustrate it, invites......

Repetitive History

SiR,—History never " repeats itself "---exactly. But, mutatis mutandis, there are many cases on record of parallelism between past and present, arising from the existence of......

Sot,—i Have Not Read E A. Poe's Narrative Of William

Willson, quoted by your correspondent of October 18th as having a similar theme to Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray. But I have read Bulwer Lytton's A Strange Story, which I......

A Literary Coincidence Sta,—mr. Angus Watson, In Your...

October 18th, calls attention to the similarity of theme in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of William Willson. Poe's motif is still......

The Spectator " Crossword

Snt,—May I, as a subscriber, put in a plea for the restoration of your always excellent Crossword Puzzle, which has disappeared from your last issue? There must be many......