Abstraction
Sir: $26.4 million is not the record for an abstract work because the Picasso painting which fetched this price, 'Le Miroir', is not abstract (Sale-rooms, 9 December). It shows......
A Doctor Writes
Sir: But Mrs Kee should complain My gangrenous leg', 9 December). She must complain! And this is how to do it. She should send a copy of her article to the chairman of the......
Waugh Aims
Sir: It is entirely appropriate that The Spectator should spring to Mr Tolstoy's defence, but is Evelyn Waugh quite the right witness? Such was Waugh's detesta- tion of......
Reviews Reviewed
Sir: Your columnist, Taki (High life, 25 November) reports that Alice Mayhew of the New York publishing firm, Simon & Schuster, had objected to his work on ideological grounds,......
Jewish Deaths
Sir: I note with interest David Irving's letter (25 November), drawing attention to the Tass report that the Auschwitz Death Books reveal that only 74,000 people died in that......
Saturation
Sir: There are six flats in this house and each week three copies of The Spectator are delivered to it. It would be interesting to hear what is the highest proportion of......
Correction
A line was accidentally omitted from Mr A.S. Fair's letter of 9 December. The quotation from the army field report of 1918 should have read: "As the frontier between Armenia and......
Above All, Humourless
Sir: Now that the author of 'Afore Ye Go' has successfully demonstrated his ability to write a boring, pompous and, above all, humourless column, could he be persuaded to try......
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