18 NOVEMBER 1949, page 28

D.n.b. And A Dory Phore

Sta r -Thanks to Mr. Harold Nicolson's marginal comment on the D.N.B., my friends tell me that I am a doryphorous, glistening and hardshclled beetle. And all this because filial......

A Doryphore Complains

Sta,—Mr. Nicolson is less than just in his attitude towards the doryphore ; he exposes, scolds and finally threatens (" I challenge the doriphores "), and in so doing manages to......

How Many Anglicans ?

Su t,—Either Janus or the reference-book he has used clearly errs in giving the number of " Anglicans in England, Scotland and Wales " as 2,360,000. What would appear to have......

44 The Indolent Farmer " Sir,—my Attention Has Been Drawn

to an article by Mr. Gareth Lima which appears in the Spectator of November 4th, 1949, under the heading The Indolent Farmer, and which contains many distorted statement' and......

Mrs. Maud Gonne Macbride

SIR, —In my review of Professor Ellmann's Yeats: the Man and the I overlooked the possibility that there might be survivors from the pc iasi of Irish history which it covers,......