21 FEBRUARY 1964, page 9

Spectator's Notebook

Sir Charles was shown a proof of Dr. Leavis's article as a matter of courtesy, or, as he prefers to put it elsewhere in this full text, 'in order to obtain 'my consent. I had to......

Struggles In Spain

By HUGH O'SHAUGHNESSY IVE years ago in Madrid the story was being r told about the visitor to Spain who asked his Spanish friend one day when they were strolling down the Calle......

No Orchids For Aunty `none The Less, And Making Every

reasonable allowance, Sir Alec Douglas-Home was pitching it rather high when he told the Young Con- servatives that he was asking the country for another ten years of office for......

The Last Word I Had' Thought That There Was Nothing

more to be said about the mice that scampered across our national stage last spring and summer. I was wrong. Mrs. Trilling, writing in the latest issue of the Partisan Review,......

Green Caps After Close Scrutiny Of The Seventeen...

selected to tour England this year, I have no hesitation in pronouncing them the worst Australian team ever to visit these chilly islands. The captain, Simpson, has stopped......

Tailpiece

Patrician, uncompromising, eloquent, unpre- dictable—adjectives accumulate when one thinks of the Earl of Sandwich. The Tories of Win- chester, whose candidate k Hinch' had......