Sir,—is Not Lord Hailsham Mistaken In Writing Of The 'crazy
defiance' of the Athenians at Marathon? The battle was a bold, well-found, justifiable and eminently successful military operation. Thermopyke would surely have provided a......
Out Cold
S1R,—Poor little Xanny Boy seems to have been frolicking with the pixies in the Cornish moonlight, and become a little pixilated. Give him the choicest Cornish pasty money can......
Little Sister
SIR,—Time magazine quotes you (Time, January 31) on scientific humanists 'assuming there arc any,' etc. You speak of the 'barren- ness' of their beliefs. I thought Englishmen......
Judicial Barbarism
SIR,—As one who has for some time opposed capital punishment on religious as well as practical grounds, I was interested to read your articles, 'Judicial Barbarism' and......
Sir,—most Of Those Who Argue About This Question Seem To
be unacquainted with murderers, and even less acquainted with the actual experience of guilt and penitence. Even Attorneys-General presumably have been on the side of the Crown,......
Undergraduate Politics
SIR,—I hope you will allow me, as one who has a shrewd idea of how much Mr. Driver really knows of the working of Oxford political clubs, to interrupt the entertaining Christ......
Abstract Art
SIR,-1 really cannot allow Mr. Glynne-Mill• to portray me in an attitude I have never struck. It is true that on this occasion we have been talking about abstract art, but......
Anchors Away
SIR,—I feel that the Navy suffered unduly in the leading article on Defence in last week's Spectator. It was stated that the Navy, 'in its offensive capacity, will be little......
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