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A Child Goes To Hospital Appreciated Miles Howard's...

'A Doctor's Journal (Spectator, August 1) and could not agree with him more strongly over the treatment of young children when sending them to hospital. My daughter was fifteen......

Holiday Questions His Holiday Question 13 (b) (spectator,...

Mr. Mackenzie Stewart falls for a 200- year-old fallacy that 'country dance' is derived from 'contredanse.' This fallacy was published in the Gentleman's Magazine (1758), when......

Sir, — When I Wrote That Mass-circulation Papers Have...

east of Suez as well as west of Temple Bar my mind was on our mammoth Fleet Street papers and not on English-language sheets that sell 90,000 copies (excluding those bought by......

Sir,—brian Inglis Says: 'if We Could Dream Future Events We

could presumably prevent them taking place.' This is not so. When I was a boy I dreamed, some time before it actually happened, that another boy would throw a dart at a......

The Middle East

SIR,—Mr. James Friend returns, in your last issue, to outworn accusations against Israel which were disproved many years ago. Thus he claims that the entry of Jews into......

Vie Ipprttator

AUGUST 24, 1833 LEGISLATIVE bustle is the order of the day. Our Representatives enact laws with such rapidity, that the panting chroniclers of their proceedings in the Gallery......

Experiments With Time

S1R.—Brian Inglis's article on Dunne's Experiment With Time gives the impression that all or most experiments on precognitive dreaming have given negative results. This is......