24 AUGUST 1956, page 14

Sir;—mr. Christie Provides The Best Answer To His Letter In

his own reference to the 'envy and malice with which we have for years been attacked.' The envy and malice exist only in his own imagination, and so does the abuse of him that......

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THE YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL. By Sally Benson. (Arts.) Tins rather slow-moving little morality of the jazz age owes a great deal of what wry charm it has to the playing by Lois Smith......

Contemporary Arts

Necrology So Brecht is dead. The Berlin of the jazz age seems suddenly more remote, and the only great writer domiciled beyond the Iron Curtain has disappeared. I say 'great'......

Way Will Bring Him Abruptly To The Summit- Edge, And

he should descend along the knife- like One Man's Pass, circling'down to Bunglas, where from a cliff height of about 300 feet he will enjoy a sea and cliff panorama without......

Sir,—i Hold No Brief For Tom Brown's School- Days; When

as a boy I read it, I was dreadfully bored, but I think Mr. Usborne's article is an example of how an unfair slant can be put upon a book by selective quotation. In referring to......

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SIR,—I am indebted to Mr. Derek Hudson for correcting, in your issue of August 17, a faulty answer to one of my 'Holiday Ques- tions.' I can but plead in defence that my......

Courtisans And Courtesans Sir,—i Was Flattered And Amused...

Peter Quennell's remarks about my translation of Cocteau's Portraits-Souvenir in the Spectator of August 3, surprised that he should have enjoyed the book enough to check the......