21 MAY 1932, page 14

Points From Letters

THE " SPECTATOR " IN THE BAHA3LAS As a reader of the Spectator of over thirty yeirs, I would like to add to the testimony of the Rev. Edward Hanson to the extent of its......

Addison's Ancestor

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, In a field on the southern border• of a charmingly rural unspoilt Westmorland village, distant from towns and trains, is a monument that......

Poetry

The Dancer WHEN this body, that I have schooled to interpret Each sound in motion effortless and sure, That rises to a pinnacle of silence, Seeming to pause an instant there,......

Holder And Another Versus Inland Revenue Commissioners

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin, -I am obliged to Mr. Bakhurst for his corrections, which were only required because (by an unfortunate error) an unre- vised draft of my......

" Warrior "

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I have only just seen the Spectator's critique of my book Warrior. Your critic suggests that I " have stepped aside to asperse others who......

A Hundred Years Ago

THE " SPECTATOR," MAY 19Tri, 1832. THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN NOVEL.—The flimsy, dull novel, full of fashion, etiquette, and polities, is superseding the fine old legend devoted......