27 MARCH 1953, page 20

Blue-green, Not Black

SIR,—In your edition of 20th March, your critic, Mr. Martin Cooper, writing of.Sutermeister's Romeo and Juliet, asks why Juliet was dressed in " funeral black " on the occasion......

Trouble' At The Tate ,

SIR,-1 should like to try to express what I believe are the feelings of the . " average man," making little claim to art-education, but forming the great 'bulk of the population......

A Cure For Verjuice

SIR,—Janus hopes Granta will issue an anti-Coronation number. I am glad to think that few of us would agree; but many would agree that a ducking in Granta might wash some of the......

Sir,—mr. M. H Middleton, In His Well Reasoned And Admirably

balanced article on the protest at the Tate, remains like most unprejudiced lovers of contemporary sculpture, I imagine, frankly bewildered, if not a trifle dismayed by the......

The Polygon

SIR,—May I ask the help of the Spectator or of its readers in the following trouble ? One of my friends here is working on a new Czech translation of The Pickwick Club. He asked......

I§pettator, Liatirrb 2gtb, T853

Camberwell, 16th March, 1853, SIR,—The Income-tax is just now a topic of sufficient interest and importance to excuse my troubling you with another short communi- cation on the......

Social Credit

Sta,—In criticising my description of the Alberta Social Credit Govern- ment as " a form of experimental Socialism," your correspondent, Mr. Eugene Forsey, is merely emphasising......

Miss Quigly

SIR,—It has been pointed out to me that there is a danger that a Miss Quigly, at present employed by. the American Command in Florence, may be confused with me as the author -of......