23 JULY 1942, page 14

Sir,—as One Who Derives Infinite Pleasure From " Marginal...

I must yet protest indignantly at Mr. Nicolson's scathing remark in The Spectator of July 57th that " the works of Charles Kingsley were really unreadable." At the age of 14 I,......

Country Life-

THE chief of the Q. department of a house in the country journeyed some seven miles to consult The food controller's office. Three straight- forward queries were put, and after......

The Decay Of The Novel

SIR,—Mr . Swinnerton's article contained such an intelligent challenge to those of us who ought to be writing interpretative fiction and are not that it is a pity he took it no......

Children's Reading

SIR,—As one removed by only three years from "Clusius's" crucial age, eight to fourteen, I feel entitled to question Mr. Harold Nicolson's assertion that reading is difficult to......