Welcome

Sir : May I, as a reader of your periodical for many years now, welcome the appearance in your columns of Messrs Fildes, ffolkes and Waugh, whose work, to judge from the first......

Sir Malcolm Sargent

Sir : I feel I must congratulate Mr Charles Reid on his sensitive obituary of Sir Malcolm Sargent (6 October). Sir Malcolm always used to say that he felt it was his vocation in......

Fairy Gold

Sir: Thanks to Strix's 'Fairy Gold' (4 August) I learned that I was three years older than need be (sixty-three) and not two years too young to claim postwar credit. In......

Adoption

Sir: May I bring to the attention of your readers a comfortable contemporary myth? This is that there are far more prospective adopters than there are children available. A few......

Sir: Mr Pearce (6 October) Flirted With The National Union

of Teachers and the National Association- of Schoolmasters. I. for my sins. joined one after the other and came to the same conclusion as Mr Pearce. The problem is. where does......

Table Talk

Sir: The letter from Graham Greene in the issue of 22 September had a curious ending. He denounced as 'war propagandists' Cardinal Spell- man and 'Bishop Sheehan.' Now, there is......

Sweet Corn

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS I have always found a kind of excruciating pleasure in sitting alone in restaurants. It may be that the unnatural act of eating solo in pub- lic......