26 APRIL 1940, page 17

Federal Union

SIR,—Mr. Wilson Harris's rejection of Federal Union as an immediately practicable aim is based on three contentions: a. That there is in Europe-today no common consciousness......

Thackeray's Letters

SIR,—A definitive edition of the Collected Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray is being prepared by Mr. Gordon N. Ray for publication by the Harvard University Press. The......

A War-time Food Policy

Sot,—Sir Daniel Hall, in his article on the above subject, notes that price and rent of farming land in certain areas is showing a tendency to rise. This demonstrates the crux......

The Best Books In The World Sir, —taste In Reading...

differs, yet your critic Mr. Derek Verschoyle and Mr. Somerset Maugham are largely in agreement. One wonders whether famous writers and critics are not inclined to put forward......