"none So Fast As Stroke"

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Miss Rose Macaulay's suspicion is correct : "None so fast as stroke" is not to be found in Ouida ; nor is the other howler about stroke......

Pour Retablir L'equilibre

[D'un correspondant parisien] Les Chambres siegent de nouveau apres une courte treve. Que sortira-t-il de cette reprise ? En politique ii faut toujours s'attendre aux surprises,......

"a Chronicle Of Kingship"

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I must take a little exception to a line in the review of A Chronicle of Kingship. In it your reviewer says of the book that we have......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sir,—there Is Another...

quotation, also attributed to Ouida : "Stroke, throwing away his cigarette, called on his......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sul,—with Reference To...

Rose Macaulay's letter, I have always heard the quotation, as "They all rowed fast, but none so fast as Reginald." I cannot say, however, whence it comes.—Yours faithfully, A.......

The Pool Of Bethesda

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Permit me to correct a misquotation from the Bible, which today I fear is too little studied. On p. 653 of the issue of April 9th, 1937,......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Si,—the Description By...

of an Oxford rowing crew, All rowed fast, but none so fast as stroke" will be found in one of her earlier novels. It was adapted for the stage and I saw it somewhere in the......