Sir,—if It Is In Poor Taste For One Woman To
write so intimately of a. Princess to 'her readers in a women's magazine, it is surely in much worse taste for Janus to repeat what she - has written for all and smith - ) in A......
Sevenpence
SIR,—As a constant though very unimportant reader of the Spectator may I be allowed to thank you warmly for your good management and generosity in having kept down the price of......
Servants Of Royalty
Sm.—I have always admired Janus, but never more so than in his comment on Miss Crawford. May a loyal subject most respectfully suggest to His Majesty, through your columns, that......
Time-spans .
SIR,—William Baird (founder of the famous firm of Scottish Coal and Iron Masters) was born in 1796 and died in 1864, shortly before the birth of his youngest son. He.--is......
Dancing Teachers
Sta,—It is no use bandying all these letters and initials about in front of your readers. We are quite determined not to ask you what they mean, and you will probably have to......
Going To The Dogs
SIR,—Mr. Hugh Thomas, under the above title, has given a racy account of his adventures. He begins his article by stating, " We lay back in Alex's car." Near the end of his day......
The Importance Of Being Clement
SIR,—In the Spectator of October 12th Mr. Wilson Harris refers to the Importance of Being Anthony. I suggest that there is a deeper moral to be learnt from the contemporary......
Lewis Carroll
SIR,—I am collecting material for a biography of the Rev. C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and should be most grateful for any reminiscences of him, for informaticin as to the......
The Albanian Example
Sia,—Janus in your enrrent issue implies—his words can have no other ' meaning—that it would in his opinion have been better to make war on Albania than to obtain the award of......
The New Stamps
SIR,—Mr. Pearson, like Sunbury, shows astonishing confidence in his doctors. It happens that two letters reached me the other day, by ordinary than from overseas. One, from......
• Disappearing Clergy
SIR.—Might I suggest that one of the trends in this disappearance is the sinister liberalism that has for some time now been creeping into the minds of people with regard to the......
"vie Spectator," Ctoixer 18th 1851
JOHN BULL is assuredly the .very incarnation of contradictions. He grumbles at war-expenses, yet rather likes to run the- risk of being drawn into wars. He denounces......
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