Walking Through Walls Accident at the Inn. By Robert Coates. (Gollancz, 13s. 6d.) The Angel and the Sailor. By Calvin Kentfield. (Gollaticz, 5s.) Across Paris. By Marcel...

The Holy Heretics The Pursuit of the Millennium. By Normal Cohn. (Secker and Warburg, 42s.) WIrH great learning and in an admirably lively style Professor Cohn traces from...

Three Parts of Gaul As France Goes. By David Schoenbrun. (Gol- la ncz, 2 Is.) France: Government and Society. Edited by J. M. WAlace-Hadrill and J. Mel~anners. (Nllethuen,...

Unnecessary Flap Ir is now becoming increasingly obvious that, Ewhatever the outcome, aflairs in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman have been seriously mishandled. What began as...

HIYGIENIC TREATMENT ( SIRS As Robert Hancock rightly pointed out in his article in your issue of June 14, funeral directors have learned to smile, if a little wanly, at the...

T1HE COMPANY REPORT SIR,---i wIs delighted to see the article by Mr. A. N. Marlborough which you published in your issue Of JuIY 19, on a subject which requires much morC...

CROSS-CHANNEIL VISITOR SIR,--l was much interested in Petr Qucnncil's thoughtful review of Tu(jiwle's ANloes on Enilmln (translated by Edward Hyarns) in your July 26 issue, but...

THE BBC AND PUBLIC MONElY Sm,--The BBC have announced a considerable contraction of sound broadcast-ng because of the need to expand television. If, as secmrs likely. the Light...

LIADY ADIELA S -T-For sentimental rcasons I should like to think I was nlot alone a11111ong your readers in noticing that the scrapi of dialogue with which Mr. Christopher...

HONG KONG SIR.- Perhlaps Vour correspondent Mr. Edinger will Cease to sneer when he Iclarns that I was in Formosa and in Hong Kong this year. 1957, during which period. March...

THEl MYSTERY OF OLIVFR FDWARD)S SIR,--IS thecre rcally any miystCry about the autliorship of The Times Thursday literary article signed 'Oliver Edwards'? 'Uncle' Randolph...

Siiz,---I ani genuinicly pleased to learn that the Green Howards did not shoot the people killed at Hong Kong last October and unreservedly retract the statement about a fine...

HAVING PERFECTED a systemn of arriving for the weekend disconcertingly early, and leaving again earlier than even the most sanguine host could reasonably expect, I am not in a...

RIADERS OF T'hec 7Tim's are by now inured to its cccentricities, but even they must have been surprised by its prolonged silence on the Altrincharn affair. That no reference to...

THE DIEATHI of Richard Stokes deprives the Labour Party of one of its bonniest fighters. The irony of it is that Ipswich l abour Party was just about to throw him out as their...

I 1HoPE the enthusiasts for the St. James's Theatre are not going to be taken in by this weeks otTer of a reprieve. Cannot they see that it may be in the new owners' financial...

LORD ALTRINCIIAM had his facc slapped when coming out of Television House on Kingsway, after appearing in a programme there. Odd that so many film cameramen and photographers...

A L11IYFLE TROUT Immediately below the stone wall a clear stream bubbled on its way from one side of the road to the other, sweeping into the light of day in a little pool...

FARM BUFFER There must be something almost mystical in the ability of a particular person to churn butter, I used to think when I spent hours turning the handle of a churn on a...

Country Life By IAN NIALL GRFEN Cornil in Angust makes one wonder if harvest , . will be late. It certainly will not be as early as it might have been when we seemed set for...

Over The Hill The Outermost Frontier. By Helmut Pabst. (William Kimber, 18s.) How often in the last war did one want to know what the enemy on the other side of the hill was...

TAIL'PIECE 'It was an uncommonly tigly dog before they off an' 'ad its tail docked, but now it takes a sharp look to tell which way it's goin'! It's not natural-like to make a...

Leviathan The Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. By Howard Warrender. (O.U.P., 42s.) THE writings of Thomas Hobbes have never failed to provoke attention; from the...

New Novels A Use of Riches. By J. 1. M. Stewart. (GollancZ, 13s. 6d.) The Silken Ladder. By Jean-Louis Curtis. (Secker and Warburg, 12s. 6d.) Knock or Ring. By Michael...

THIE' THEATRE STAKES SIR,-M r. Bailey accords himself the inuvsitl position of having carlned his living by being a member of the cast in a play of mine. H.e must be told it's...

THE, TRAITORS I)DFAR SIR,-- It's apparent to me That my good friend Hugh Fraser, MP, As a Blimp stands alone With the Member for Stone, While the Member for Stafford makes...

Letters to the Editor The Liberal Creed George Watson The BBC's Russian Service P. J. D. Wiles, Victor J. IFrank Dame Edith's Ban Lady Deena IanXson, A lan Wal/ank The Traitors...

DAME EDITI'S BAN SIR,- -As one who can recall the sensation caused by the publication of the novels of Marie Ciorelii in the Nineties when that author launched a campaign...

FRESHER EGGS SIR,---WC regret that Leslie Adrian appears to regard the British Egg Marketing Board with such distrust, but there is much in her article with which we...

SIR.-Pharos finds incomprehensiblc the attitude of Dame Edith Sitwell in withholding from the Spectator review copies of her poems. The imposition of her ban does not surprise...

THE BliC's RUSSIAN SERVICE SIR.---I ani very pleased that Mr. Gretton has replied, and sorry that some of my questions were too unprecisely put to elicit the required...

SIR,--Between 1950 and 1953 1 worked as the BBC's Russian Programiime Organiser. I resigned from the Corporation in April, 1953, to take up a similar post abroad. My...

Master Plasterers Powder and Paint. By Neville Williams. (Long- mans, 1 8s.) RARE now Must be the Browningesque duchess whose Check grew to be one rnaster-plaster Of mucus...

Critic With Skids Under DayS of the Phoenix: The Nineteen-Twenties I eIlIlember. By Van Wyck Brooks. (Dent, 30S.) VAN WV(YK BROOKS began as a literary critic who early Won a...

Round The Bend Branch Lines. By 0. S. Nock. (Batsford, 25s.) THIS is a rambling book rather like a branch line. Its driver wanders off on to the main line; that is to say, he...

CAVALIERS AND EGGHEADS 'A KING,' said Selden, 'is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness' sake.' The monarchy 11 he was writing about was totally different...

BO OKS Dead Riflemen BY GEOFFREY BARRACLOUGH THE cleavage between Left and Right-not only in politics, but in philosophy, in literature, in art-is always with us; but it...

Stress By BRIAN INGLIS THAT emotional stress is often reflected in physical symptoms has never been in doubt; the blush of shame, the tremor of alarm are in everybody's...