In A Nutshell
Sir: There is junk mail and crank mail, and mail from Mr Dineley (Letters, 14 Octo- ber). His is of such bewildering virtuosity that anyone with a serious 'Nut-file', far from......
Vulgar Commoners
Sir: Mr Haycraft (Letters, 19 August) appears to prefer `vulgar' to 'common' as a term of disapproval. The 27th Lord Craw- ford called Marquess Curzon 'inexpressibly common'; I......
Pickwickian History
Sir: John Harris (Letters, 23 September) is a very good architectural historian and as such can call black white at will. Other observers find it hard to embrace the Euston Arch......
Lexicon
Sir: Mr Wray's suggestion (Letters, 7 October) seems admirable. You could offer him the following explanations: a) Cricket: baseball played by under- achievers. b) Wallace......
Finger Games
Sir: I read with particular interest Brien Masters's denial of Angela Huth's critic- isms of the Rudolf Steiner system of education in view of the recent announce- ment that a......
Salisbury Reviewed
Sir: In response to Noel Malcolm's `Europe's unholy godfathers' (23 Septem- ber) I would like to point to a brief passage in a speech by Lord Salisbury made during his......
Pavlovian
Sir: Robin Holloway's 'Bach betrayed' (Arts, 23 September) reminds us that composers are notoriously unreliable on other composers — especially earlier ones — and that Vaughan......
Swamped
Sir: Andrew Kenny should ask himself why unrestricted mass immigration did little for the indigenous population of the USA, Australia and New Zealand. Hugh Joseph Highbury,......
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