2 OCTOBER 1953, page 16

Coal : Another View

Sm,—I am not a miner, I have never been down a mine, and further it would require an armed escort to get me down. If the popula- tion of England were to depend on my effort......

The Authentic Don Marquis

SIR,—Although a part of the quotation from Don Marquis in my letter on "The Vice of Work " makes a pretty enough puzzle as rendered by the printer, perhaps it may be worth......

Vie Spectator

OCTOBER 1st, 1853 AUSTRIA.—The grand ceremony of receiving the long-lost crown of St. Stephen, and the accompanying insignia of royalty, was per- formed at Vienna on the 19th......

Another Red Herring Sta,—in My Copy Of Cobbett's Rural...

an edition of 1893, a sketch of the author's life is included. This sketch contains the following extract, which is in Cobbett's own words. " I placed myself ready with a red......

Londonisation And Scotland Sir,—i Believe That In Your...

" Londonisation and Scotland " you have made a sincere effort to understand the com- plaints of the Covenant Association. Never- theless, your concluding sentence, in which you......

Sir,—i Find Myself Unable To Refrain Froeit Answering Mr. C.

W. Orr's unkind and con- temptuous attack on musical amateurs in your issue of September 18th. I do not know if Mr. Orr would class him- self as part of " the cream of London's......

The Vice Of Work Sir,—work Is No Vice. It Is

the machine of earning that bruises the soul and leaves the mind empty. I should like to leave a letter stamped on some indestructible material for the first generation of......

Africa's "history "

SIR,—Mr. Vernon Bartlett's letter is a kindly one, and I am sorry if I misinterpreted him in any way. But even if one accepts the somewhat restricted Oxford Dictionary defini-......