24 APRIL 1936, page 23

"alfred The Great"

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I am greatly obliged to the reviewer of my little Alfred the Great in your issue of April 10th. That your readers will obtain from him a......

The Intelligence Of Cats

[To the Editor of THE , SPECTATOR.] heartily agree with Mr. Joseph's defence of the cat's intelligence. I am a victim to the eat, but though fascinated I am not blinded. She is......

Cardinal Bourne's Biography

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am entrusted with the writing of the late Cardinal Bourne's biography. Possessors of letters (other than merely formal missives) who may......

Naturalists In The Colonies

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Chance visitors to the Colonies—as for eirample Mr. Julian Huxley in Africa View, in his comment on East Africans—often make the......

Winter Landscape

Tyre spiky distance was the town ; spires, Factories, gasworks, shrunken in the telescope of blue. - If there was any sound Across that giant nerveless palm of ground —Work from......