Lowry ART HIE exhibition of Lowry's work at present being shown at the Tate is impressive. The . . .. ~ ~~~. I pictures are always clear, the product ot an independent and...

Broadway: Ashes to Ashes THEATRE IN CRISIS -2 From ED FISHER NEW YORK HE Broadway fall season began with an unprecedented thirteen playhouses empty, and nothing much has...

Split Screen TELEVISION By STUART HOOD WEEKEND'S viewing is not perhaps the best basis on which to judge a country s tele- vision. In Germany, as here, relaxation is the...

Old Wine in New Bottles THE PRESS By DONALD McLACHLAN s it really necessary or wise that the daily papers should so often follow up on Mondays ideas given to them by the...

The Great Freudian Hoax? SIR,-Freud's genius can be measured in two wavs -firstly, by the continued effect of his work on Western thought and, secondly, by the extent to which...

Brother Brown Goes East SIR,-Your Moscow correspondent Dev Murarka in your issue of December 2, contributes a most illinformed article on the visit of the Foreign Secretary to...

Towards the Fall Sita,--Niv home for some years in the 1920s having been near St Andrews, I have just read *vith interest and considerable nostalgia Giles Playfair's article...

SIR,-I was surprised to learn that Simon Raven, whom I took to be a man of sensibility, excuses the cruelties of bull-fighting and fox-hunting on the ground that they have...

SIR,--It is possible that Freud might have found a deeper explanation of William Sargant's obsession s"ith br dinwas anrln rither than dismiss it as naive sensationalism ( 1 he...

SIR,-Lord Campbell (Letters, November I1) when attacking Professor Bauer's article (November 4) seems to be confusing means and ends. All men of goodwill accept that poverty is...

Foul Play S.i!- 1 lih reference in L eie Adrian's article 'Foul Plus! x Noovembcr I8) to 'loads ot rubbish' from Hong Kon is just the kind of sweeping statement that has...

A. E. Housman SIR,-I am preparing an edition of the letters of A. E. Housman, and would ask any of your readers Awho have letters from him, or know the whereabouts of any, if...

Brophy and Brigid SIR,-I suspect Mr Martin Turnell (Letters. December 2) has assured your readers of 'the shoddiness, the superficiality and the silliness' of my views on...

A Spectator's Notebook HE decision to send the Prince of Wales to Trinity College, Cambridge, next year, will presumably soothe those who have been agitating themselves lately...

Rough Weather By JOHN BULL ELL the ships,' says one group of Cunard shareholders; 'sell the valuable property in Liverpool and New York,' say others; 'distribute the cash...

Market Notes By CUSTOS A FTER that starry-eyed-but technical-reLcovery in the stock markets the inevitable happened when Mr Smith rejected Mr Wilson's ultimatum-the...

Tune Spotting OPERA ALCOLM WILLIAMSON, composer of The n Violins of St Jacques, the latest con- b missioned opera to be mounted by Sadler's Wells, r is being impeached up...

The Role of Sterling R --g--g@J3@fl--EN v By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT NCE again sterling is under pressure. Is it a passing flurry or is it more serious? Is a weak sterling a bar...

Bungled PA LACES NYONE who has visited Vienna with its Lvast uninhabited palaces, mausoleums of vanished greatness, knows how enormously grateful we must be that our palaces...

Prix de Tube 1966 LONDON FILM FESTIVA L By HENRY TUBE NE rules men's minds by appearances and not by the truth.' Thus Louis XIV's ill- fated Minister of Finance, Nicolas...

The Chrisidan Faith in Art. The End of Conflict By Eric Newton and William Neil. (Ilodder and Stoughton, 5(s.) -Ii IE time is nowv almost past when it could be SLupposed...

High and Low. Betjeman Land By John Betjeman. (John Murray, 15s.) The Ikons and Other Poems. By Lawrence Durrell. (Faber, 13s. 6d.) A Christ of the Ice-Floes. By David...

The Rhodesian Dilemma SIR,- Not the least of the absurdities in Mrs Diana Spearman's letter is her apparent belief that fratricidal excesses among white communities ended with...

Dr Balogh and the Third World I SIR,-The current controversy on development problems in your columns bears on issues of wide political significance. The economic analysis of...

Medical Aid for Vietnam LETTERJ EOThR d From: R. A. Cox, Michael Craig, Anthony Judge, Allan Horsfall, E. Go5nensay, S. R. Shenoy, W. L. Greig, Brigid Brophy, Olivia Alanning,...

SIR,-Nigel Lawson, writing in reply to Dr McMichael's letter (November 25), says that be would call the wording of Dr McMichael's appeal 'disingenuous.' He goes on: 'how many...

Sexual Freedom SIR,-It is sad to learn that Leo Abse's overdue homosexual law reform Bill is now running into trouble from the shipping lobby. To suggest, as is now being done,...

The Early English and Celtic Lyric. Song in the Mist By P. L. Henry. (Allen and Unwin, 70s.) To find unity in diversity is a legitimate scholarly task. Any native of these...

The Norwegian Campaign of 1940. The Curtain-Raiser By J. L. Moulton. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 55s.) A BLUNDER in war has a dramatic, even a tragic, quality; in its victims and...

Good Intentions -Same Road PUNISHAIENT By GILES PLAYFAIR NE must. to be faiz. credit Mlr Jenkins with a considerable deiree of Political courage for his sponsorship of such...

Juries: Condemned Without Trial CRIME By R. A. CLINE VERYONE seems to agree that the Criminal Justice Bill does not provide a momentous structural overhaul of our criminal...

The Letters of Mrs Gaskeli. In Perspective Edited by J. A. V. I Chapple and Arthur Pollard. (Manchester University Press, £6 6s.) IT has been authoritatively stated that only...

A Century of Conflict, 1850-1950. Essays for A. J. P. Taylor. Taylor's Festschrift Edited by Martin Gilbert. (Hamish Hamilton, 42s.) THE Festschrift is a very peculiar...

How to Live with Death MEDICINE TODAY By JOHN ROWAN WILSON GOOD many years ago, when I was a house Lsurgeon, I was in charge of a patient with tuberculous broncho-pneumonia,...

Who's Playing Walter Mitty? POLITICAL COMMENTARY By ALAN WATKINS NE of Mr Malcolm NIu Qeridge's favou rite recurring themes, of which he has several, concerns the difficulty...

Malice in Wonderland All in a golden afternoon We talk of dirty thingsOf why mock turtles like to mock And how a lobster sings And what becomes in middle life Of Cabbages and...

The Prophet Rampant a By TIBOR SZAMUELY M R DEUTSCHER takes his title* from a phrase M of Hegel's. It has already been used by another and even more eminent Marxist: in 1885...

'France Now Lives Without Drama' By DAVID THOMSON IREPARATIONS for the French parliamentary elections have now begun in earnest, though they may not take place until three...

Ube Zpectator December 8, 1866 The famine in Orissa is reported to be declining, the officials averring, apparently with some pride, that in the district of Cuttack the deaths...

A Touch of the Sjambok ? ? K 0- - FM- P -Eff DEAR MR X, When you rang me up at 1.25 p.m. yesterday and explained that you had been told that I was bound to be in for luncheon...

How Grand a Coalition? GERMA NIY From CONRAD AHLERS HEMNURG ABEMUS Papam was the cheerful cry in Bonn last week. After four weeks of an intense political crisis, as even...

Conan Doyle. Peculiar Patriot By Pierre Nordon. Translated by I Frances Partridge. (John Murray, 55s.) IT is hard not to like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and it is rather harder...

Rhodesian Madness s the atmosphere enveloping the RhoLdesian question thickens with re. .. I I I crimination, charge and counter-charge on all sides, perhaps the greatest...