TI-L DEBATE Oil tclcpilolc-taplpilg at Monday's general mjleetinjg of the Bar was worthy of the House orf LIords at its worst. It is true that the advice of the 1,1rivy C...

I AM GLAD to sece that a campaign has been started for SLundaliy olpelling in WIles, a welconme attempt to remnove a1 blight which strikes terror into thc heart of even the...

PI(OFESSOR DENIS RO(,AN'S hlarmless joke durl ing a bL)rldcast in the United Statcs to tile ellect that America should help towards the tupkecp of the Royal laamily on the...

I i PUBLICISFED WIS the dCounICil'S trleatillent of tile CoUnter-Attack BLureaui,. This organisatioIn is Ruil by Mr. lan Nairin, of 'Subltopia' fame, .and it is in such cases...

Wvr ARlto pittul ry Lsed to borough councils doing thc wroflg thing by plhces of archlitecttiral a',"d historical interest, but when there is a protest, at least thcy normally...

1a I WAS VASILY imPressed by the ianisterpiece of huLm1oro0Us prose with wlich thle Timiuc Zoological orresponLdenlt celebrated the arrival of thie first Indian riihinceros...

WHEN EARLIERt this year the Alainbrookc Diaries were published, they were sourly received by the Beaverbrook newspapers. Iord Alanbrooke was denoLInced in thc Sundlay Expres.s...

MOMENTS OF TRUTH SIR,-Your television critic would have experienced another telling 'moment of truth' had he chanced, as 1 did a few weeks ago, to listen to Hughie Greene's...

ROME ANI) THE SARACENS SIli,-Mr. Hilary Corke's reference books must differ from nIiC on the Saracens' attack on Rome. Certainly they didn't cross the Aurelian wallts-but...

LE ROUGE El' LE BLANC Sm,-- For sham1e on Leslie Adrian's stigimatising tailpiecc to a recent article. She actually Construes wine references on our mCenus at Corner House...

ROMANTIC NOVEL CONTEST SIR,-I should be most grateful if I might be allowed space in your columns to draw your readers' attention to our £250 Romantic Novel Contest, which...

PERSECUTED BY BIRDS SM.t,-As a victim of ornithological persecution, I ask you for some advice on how to obtain at least a share of my own vegetables and fruit. Once a...

HEALTH SERVICE PAY Snt,---In discussing the alleged Bank rate leakage recently, Taper suggested that it would be difficult to find a more compact example of the ineptitude...

Victoriana I A Victorian Canvams: The Memoirs of W. P. Fritih, I 1t.RA. Edited by Nevile Wallis. (Geofr ey Bles, 25s.) IN old-fashioned country bar-parlours. not yet...

Top Brass The Busincss of War. By Major-General Sir John Kennied y. (Hutchinson, 25s.) ' "WAR iS an option of ditlicitties"---Wolfe' wrote Field-Marshal Wavell in 1941 at...

Indigestible I Chose Caviar. By Art Buchwald. (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) SOME years ago the New Yorker published a cartoon of a husband and wife arriving at a party he all eager...

I Bowler Hats and Revolution I The General Strike. By Julian Symons. (The (iresset Press, 2 Is.) T iII Sarajevo of the General Strike was Natsopa's refusal to print a Dailv...

Canis Sapiens By STRIX ON the way home I switched off the wireless after the news bulletin. A discussion was going on in the back of the car. They think I cannot understand...

Convalescing IN spite of the substantial rise in the gold and dollar reserves during October, many observers have been unable to hide their disappointment that the pace of the...

BLUFF AND ACTION NREST in the he\Cvens, uLn1Cst in industrvy: is Lthat to he the pattern of the new, session of Parliament which opened onl Tuesday? The view is a superlicial...

Alt'l~vi- lTiu.l S Apples in small gardens are a great boon and the trees can take several forms. Cordons trained obliquely or verticalily save space. In this forml they

IDLF TALK D)own at the little cluster of white-washed buildings known as the lower village, the supplier of logs resides and holds Court in a sort of 'snug,' where he sits...

TIm Fui . ERRET' We were talking about ferreting days and my companion smiled as he remarked, 'My worst day with a ferret was when we came down off the fells with a bagful of...

Country Life By IAN NIALL I I i s a nmild. sunny autumin afternoon with leaves of sycamore aid oak tumbling to the grass, the scent of wood-smoke in the air and. noW and...

Michaelmas Dandelions Among the Dahlias. By William Sansom. (The I Hogarth Press, 15s.) I Winter's Tales (3). (Macmillan, l8s.) I Modern Irish Short Stories. (O.U.P.:...

What the Jester Saw Hitler: The Missing Years. By Ernst (QPutZp Hanfstaengl. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 30s5) HANFSTAENGL knew Hitler well as a friend, though not an intimate...

KEEPING UP WITH THE RICES SIR,-Judging from the howl of protest set up by those who are muddled, baffled and bored by Mr. Donaldson, who accuse him of being witless, unoriginal...

'TONIGH T'-AND TOMORROW Slit,-Many besides John Metcalf must have been dismayed by the Tonight programme in which girls, who agreed that they read the newspapers, showed their...

Letters to the Editor Sadism on TV Peter Williams Those Germans A. J. P. TavIor The Liberals of Ipswich Henry Durant 'oniight'-and Tomorrow Donald M. O'Connor The Blitz George...

THOSE GERMANS SI,-Thanks for your kind remarks about me and your close study of my journalistic activities. But you should not dismiss my views on Germany as wronghcaded or...

THE BLITZ SIR,-l was somewhat surprised to find Mr. Hopkinson writing in the S'pe(woIr on November 1: 'The blitz [on London] needed and did not find another recording artist'...

THE LIBERALS OF IPSWICH Sllk,-ln our release on thc SuLvey we made of the Ipswich by-clection, we stressed that 10,000 of the liberal voters had never voted Liberal before....

Gnawing Frustrations By (OUR CORRES PONI)ENT Jeruslemlls I620 p.m. on Tucsday, October 29, youLng A \loshe DuLleg hurled a hand grenade over the gallery balLsitrade on to the...

THE ALLIANCE AND THE SATELLITES T | fHERE are two wrong ways of looking at the Russian success in launching their artificial satellites. One is to regard the whole thing as...

New Novels This Side of the Truth. By Elizabeth Montagu. (I-leinemanll, 1 5s.) Coup (le Gracc. By Marguerite Yourcenar. (Secker and WarbuL-g, l0s. 6d.) Those Without...

Vive La Difference! Letters to My Daughter. By Edith Sumllmerskill. . . (Heinem,11,11, 18s.) wvIrs. Ressie Bnraddock MlIP. 13v I jilic Toole. (I-la Ic, IL. SUMNIIERSKILL'S...

B O OKS Intellectual Changeling By ROSE MACAU LAY SIR GEOFFREY FABER raises, in his introduction to this absorbing and scholarly book,* the question of his protagonist's...