Why Snob?
SIR.—It may interest your correspondent Mr. Cecil Roberts that in 1916 I was given the same explanation of the origin of the word " snob " as he had from his informant, with the......
Greece's “ Great Idea !) Sir,—mr. Woodhouse Maintains...
Enosis (union of Greece and Cyprus) is no longer seriously considered outside Communist circles. I recently visited Greece for the third time since the war, and during this last......
Sir,—i Have Read The Letters Of " Housewife " And
" Country Rector's Wife " with mingled sympathy and admiration, but cannot see how they invalidate the principle I am maintaining—that the kind of school edtication a child gets......
6 , Middle-class Argument"
Sia,—There are many parents with a child at an elementary school who spend thirty shillings a week on amusements and as much again on tobacco. It never occurs to them that, if......
Another Pension Paradox
siR,—x.Y.z. is not the only one to suffer from being " self-employed and over 65." My husband was in Holy Orders for 34 years. When he died, after receiving a disability pension......
Lord Passfield
SIR,—The Passfield Trustees are making arrangements for the writing of a biography of Lord Passfield. They have deposited his papers in the British Library of Political and......
Intercommunion
Sitt,—It may be pertinent to point out that during and between' the years 1552 and 1662 the Prayer Book did not postulate or permit any consecra- tion of the bread and wine at......
"vie 6pectator," Jfebruarp 9tb, 1850
A MEETING of the friends of National Education was held at Willis's Rooms on Thursday . . . Archdeacon Manning opened with prayer. Mr. G. A. Denison said that "all education......
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