25 MAY 1951, page 16

Sir,—what About It Samuel Vi 16? "and As The Ark

of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked through a window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord ; and she despised him in her......

"a Sleep Of Prisoners"

SIR,—I have just seen Mr. W. P. Jackson's letter in the Spectator of May 4th, in which he forcibly points out my error in interpreting the last scene in Christopher Fry's play A......

Priceless Health Sir.—one Hesitates To Question The...

editorial expressions of opinion, but a suggestion made in your News of the Week note under the above heading in your issue of May 11th should not pass without comment.......

Sir,—to Call The Rather Hogarthian Proceedings Of The...

in Proverbs vii an interesting tale reminds one of the celebrated suggestion that the Day of Judgement might be called a pretty sight.— Yours faithfully, W. F. LOFTHOUSE. Old......

Sir,—may I Say How Shocked I Am At Mr. Maclachlan's

slander of this ancient scat of enlightened humanism as a sort of hostelry for " profo- sional education." And how much it pains me, after three year's residence in the capital......

Englishman In Exile

Sta,—May I ask you to record my appreciative grin at Mr. J. B. Broad- bent's contribution, Englishman in Exile ? I have read all the Under- graduate Pages and, confess to a......

Chapter Of Entertainment

SIR,—lanus's selection of Proverbs vii for entertainment must surely bear the palm. The History of Bel and the Dragon, for our generation that loves detective tales, must be......

What Voltaire Said

SIR,—In his Spectator's Notebook of your last two issues Janus has raised an interesting point about the attribution to Voltaire of a quotation which, although very close in......