14 OCTOBER 1922, page 12

With Regard To One Of Them—lord Derby—there Are, At All

events, two things to be said. First, he stands, more clearly than any other living statesman, for a defensive alliance with France. Had such an alliance been made two years ago......

Letters To The Editor.

[Letters of the length of ons of our leadial p3ragrap!es are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] CHRISTIANITY AND CRIME IN......

Correspondence.

AMERICA'S DEBT TO US : A REPLY TO " HOW IT STRIKES AN AMERICAN." (To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] STH,—Many illuminating articles have been written and speeches made on the......

Lamb's Retorts To Coleridge And Wordsworth. [to The...

THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—" Ancient Mariner " is quite right. It was Coleridge, not Wordsworth, to whom Lamb said, when asked if he had heard him preach, " I never heard you do......

Army Y. Civil Service.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—May I take the occasion of the death of the most success- ful Civil Service coach (after the late Walter Wren) of the day to draw......

"lloyd George Must Go Now."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—In regard to the strong opinion daily expressed by the Press and a very large section of the electors that " Lloyd George must go!" it......

The Pay And Hours Of Civil Servants. [to The Editor

OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—In the note appended to Mr. Watney's letter of last week you remark : " According to evidence which has been pub- lished the actual work is frequently......