The Greek Galley
SIR,—If the late Sir Henry Stuart Jones was, as Mr. Clarke says, guilty of a desperate mistake in interpreting yap* tpicria as an " outrigger " or "oar-box " built out from the......
The Future Offensive Sir, —mr. Curell's Letter Under The...
in your issue of December 13th seems to me to have missed the point of the para- graph in your Editorial Notes of September 6th to which he refers. You then suggested that the......
Terminological Exactitude
SIR,—Your reviewer accuses Mr. Alan Hodge and myself of making " a dogmatic denial of the well-established historical fact that Clara Bow was the It ' girl." He is being a......
Parcels For Prisoners Of War
SIR,—About a fortnight ago it was given out over the wireless that persons other than parents could send out parcels of food, &c., to prisoners of war independently of the Red......
Lawrence's Grave
SIR,—A bomb has partly destroyed the seventeenth-century church of Moreton, Dorset, all the stained glass windows having been shattered. It is here that "Lawrence of Arabia " is......
Stit,—with Regard To The Word Artimon, A. Jal (glossatre...
1848) states that it was the name of the largest sail in the ancient galley. It retained this meaning in the Middle Ages (low Latin artimonium) down to the fifteenth century......
Peziza Coccinea
SIR,—I shall give myself the pleasure at the end of January of send- ing to the Provost of Worcester a present of " Jews' ears "—the repellent name by which this brilliant......
News Of Air Raids
SIR,—In your note " The Excesses of the Censors," in The Spectator of November 29th, you mention complaints in American newspapers of the continued suppression of the names of......
After Capore'tto
Sta,—At the end of the last war, when the Italians at length succeeded in defeating the demoralised Austrians, it was Lord Cavan's army, headed by its British divisions, which......
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