Harrow Church
Sril,—On a recent Saturday afternoon a gioup of people watching a game on Harrow School cricket fields approached me with the warning that the parish church steeple was on fire.......
N.h.s. Spectacles
SIR, —Mr. Black and I must clearly agree to differ. He evidently believes that the National Health Service should provide his customers with " articles of dress"; whilst I feel......
Saving Now
Sta,—It was a pleasure to read Honor Croome's intelligent and unbiased article in the Spectator of November 4th on the difficulties in the way of teaching thrift today. Any......
Fragile, Sonorous, Evocative
SIR,—I have taken a keen interest in pictures for a good many years 4 nd may claim to be fairly well informed about painting, but I must confess that I am not much the wiser......
"on A Dark Night "
SIR, —I find the following sentence in what purports to be a criticism of my novel On a Dark Night in the Spectator of October 28th: " This operation (a hanging) took seventeen......
Portrait Of Lita
S1R, —For fifty years and more I have read the Spectator every week, except when I have been out of reach of it. Never until this article appeared has it printed anything that......
The "spectator" Habit
SIR, —In common with other folk I find it very expensive nowadays to indulge in many habits started in easier times, but the habit of reading the Spectator, formed a great many......
A Brickbat Query
SIR, —Mr. Stephen Lcc, in his interesting review of Mr. Ramsey's Henry Ireton in the Spectator of November 11th, has enriched our language with an intriguing new metaphor ;......
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