7 AUGUST 1936, page 22

A Woodcock's Third Sitting ?

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A short distance -from my house -there can be seen a woodcock sitting on four eggs. This is surely a very exceptional event at this time......

The Palestine Royal Commission [to The Editor Of The...

SIR,—The Palestine Royal Commission will leave only when order has been restored. As the members of the Commission are not themselves intimately familiar with the subject of......

Lord Darling

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] , SIR,—I am engaged upon the biography of the late Lord Darling. The book was authorised by Lord Darling in his lifetime, and, until the date......

Palestine Immigration

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. William Blumberg refers to a report in The Times of Jirly 24th, and writes : " I see that the Zionists have com- plied with my......

A Land Utilisation Survey

'To the Editor,of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In case any of your readers should have been misled by the paragraph which appeared in your issue of July s 17th, will you alloW me to......

Dietetic Economy .

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Whilst agreeing with Mr. E. S. P. Haynes that beer is "abominably overtaxed," I would cross pens with him when he says that it is almost "......

Mexico And New Mexico

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of June 12th, Mr. V. S. Pritchett, reviewing a book by a young American writer, Raymond Otis—Miguel of the Bright Mountain,......

Dame Elizabeth Wordsworm [to The Editor Of The Spectator.] -

SIR,—I have been . asked by the Council Of Lady Margaret Hall to write a memoir of Dame Elilabeth Wordsworth, the first principal of the Hall. Her family haS'with great......