6 DECEMBER 1940, page 13

Liddell And Scott Sir, —the Spectator Has Been...

including in its wide survey such diverse and important criticisms as those of Mr. Neville Chamberlain and the newly revised edition of the famous Lexicon of Liddell and Scott.......

The B.b.c. And Pacifism

Slit,—Mr. Cleghom Thomson points out that certain well-known preachers holding pacifist views are no longer allowed to broadcast. I should like to draw attention to the fact......

The Spanish Dilemma

Sta,—From your review of Professor Allison Peers' The Spanish Dilemma he seems to omit one reason which I have thought a very important one as to why Spain has not actually......

Sta,—in A Recent Number Of Your Journal I Was Pleased

to read Dr. W. B. Selbie's stout plea for the study of Greek in times which have seen the slopes of Parnassus swept by a driving hail of evicted Greek and Roman authors. The......

Railways And Raids

SIR,—I claim no expert knowledge of the British or any other railway system, but I cannot feel that Mr. G. Boyd-Carpenter's letter on " Railways and Raids " in The Spectator of......

Peziza Coccinea

Sta,—One of the most attractive finds on walks in childhood in Dorset lanes was the brilliant and exquisite " red-cup," as we used to call it. I have never found it elsewhere,......