Taper Sir,—taper Should Check His Literary Allusions. It...
Belloc but E. C. Bentley who wrote the 'Ballade of Vain Delight' with the last line : 'What is the use of going on like thisV—Yours faithfully, 2 Audio! Square, South A udley......
Pullman Service
SIR,—I would like to corroborate Mr. Baber's experience of the Pullman Car Company's concoctions served in the Plymouth to London boat trains. Coming straight from the French......
11 1. In Your Columns I Have Expressed Admiration 'or Your
astute and lucid theatre critic, Alan Brien, ?fle of the shrewdest and best of the younger genera- "on; but when he suggests that any reader who enjoys t he Spectator is likely......
The Road To Mumbles Pier
SIR,—I am reaching the age at which, according to the experts, I am likely to reap the rewards of heavy smoking and the other indulgences of an ill-spent life. I can now face......
Telling The World
SIR,—I sat, in my youth, at the feet of Sydney and Beatrice Webb, and also joined the ILP, but I was always taught to be at least reasonably courteous to political opponents,......
And Now Nyasaland Sia,—it Is Clear That Professor...
I are basically agreed on what we want for Central Africa, but very much at odds as to how to achieve it. 'He takes the theoretical view, I a more pragmatic one. It is not ,of......
Sir,—in His Article On The Pamphlet Everyman A Capitalist...
N. Davenport writes, 'If Sir Toby's Committee would have another look at our mixed economy they ought to see how undesirable it is to encourage industrial workers to have a......
Toynbee's Greece
SIR,—Mr. Hugh Lloyd-Jones in. his review of Arnold J. Toynbee's Home University Library volume, Hellenism, describes it as a modernised ver- sion of a book originally written in......
Paul Slickey
Sia.—As one who can and does enjoy the Spectator every week, I was surprised and a little disappointed to find your critic Alan Brien including me among those who would, or even......
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