26 OCTOBER 1974, page 5

Sir: The Result Of The General Election Has Disappointed...

everyone. To Put it no higher, our legislators are g. eing to be physically overworked. Isn't it time any recommendation to the Monarch for a dissolution within say the first......

The Threepenny Election Sir: I'm Surprised Basil Charles...

didn't mention the full complement M Peachum's gang — Jemmy Twitcher, ° Miming Ned, Harry Paddington and all. The list ends with Ben Budge, whom Gay (with the quaint orthography......

Fond And Fashion

Sir: It is interesting to learn from Joan llobinson (October 19) that undernouri shment is the most important symptom Poverty, and that children during the • r were less......

Adler, Alger And Fitz

fi . 0 be put in one's place twice courteously but twice — in a siingle edition of The Spectator (October ' 2) and that during the middle of a general election is a somewhat......

Amarcord

Sir: Mr Ackroyd was kind enough to give the above book (which I translated from Italian) an excellent review, in spite of the fact that he is obviously totally unsympathetic to......

Happy Motoring

Sir: Rupert Croft Cooke's rose coloured spectacles (October 19) were not focused on car driving because he doesn't do it any more, but you may be interested in the observations......

Medicine And Morality

From Professor T. E. Rowell Sir: The mounting hysteria in which The Spectator increasingly preoccupies itself with human reproduction is unfitting to a journal with intellectual......