16 APRIL 1927, page 15

American English

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIa,—May I suggest that the letters which have appeared in your olumns on this subject betray both inaccuracy and a failure to understand the......

Black And White [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

Sni,—You really must allow me a few more words with your reviewer. • Lord Olivier," he stated, " is so ignorant of local conditions as to call Kitchen Kaffir the lingua franca......

The Girl Of To-morrow [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

SIR,—In an interesting report called " The Education of the Adolescent," I find a statement which I think is particularly applicable to much of the criticism of modern......

The Last Quartets [to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Srn,—mr.

Maine is shocked by my metaphors, as I intended him to be. On the one hand there is the critic, pontifical but vague, condemning with one sweep the later Quartets, as an......