25 SEPTEMBER 1953, page 19

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SIR,—It has just been brought to my notice that Bouillane de Lacoste, in his edition of Les Illuminations of Rimbaud, which Mr. Fowlie used for his translations, gives the......

The Vice Of Work

SIR,—ln her disrespectful denigration of Work as expressed in her spirited essay, Mrs. Jacquetta Hawkes seems, surprisingly, to suggest that the Americans are less maniacally......

Have Read With Keen Interest The Letters In Recent Issues

of the Spectator on the British Ass. Broadly, I would agree with the criticisms made by your correspondents. The B.A., as at present organised, is an anachronism. It was founded......

Africa's " History "

SIR,—In Mr. Thomas Hodgkin's otherwise most interesting article in your issue last week, he mentions that my recent book on Africa opens with the statement that it is " a......