Sordid Campus
Sir: Congratulations are due to Paul Johnson (10 December) for his perceptive appraisal of student media, their characteristics and relation to the 'adult' press. There were,......
Nobel Minds?
Sir: Auberon Waugh (`Tale of two authors', 10 December) correctly perceives the failure of the Nobel Prize for Literature to reflect true literary merit over the years, Of those......
H 2 O And Ag
Sir: In your issue for the 31 December, there appears an article entitled 'Water under the bridge', by Rober Silver. Since the name is not a very common one, some of your......
More Marbles
Sir: Gavin Stamp (Letters, 7 January) asks Why the Greek government has not called on France to return the Winged Victory of Sannothrace. The answer is very simple, and was......
Sir: If, As Eric Christiansen Alleges (books, 17...
Faith used to appear in visions demanding 'trinkets', this must be even more miraculous than the usual run of visions, for no such person ever existed. `St Faith' is simply the......
Sir: Mr Waugh's Concern ('another Voice', 10 December)...
subliminal ef- fect of W.L. George's Children of the Mor- ning on William Golding's Lord of the Flies might have deepened had he referred to Ambrose Bierce's (6.1842) short......
Sir: Lord Elgin's Contemporaries Thought That He Was...
civilization a good turn by taking the marbles from the P arthenon. Captain William Hoste, Royal Navy, writing home from Athens about his r emoval of 'any pieces of stone with......
For All The Saints
Sir: I am not at all sure that the always admirable Miles Kington needs to be apologetic to the sometimes admirable P. J. Kavanagh (Postscript, 26 November) for failing to......
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