Taking The Tablet Sir: When Auberon Waugh Reopened The Pages
of the Tablet (12 November), he seems to have hoped to revisit Brideshead . What a disappointment! And then he struck a snide review of the biographY of his own grandfather,......
Good Addresses
Sir: Paul Johnson writing on 'Epistolary dons' (19 November) evidently lives a very sheltered life insulated from the harsh realities of the academic world if he really thinks......
Sir: I Am A Longtime Admirer Of The Spectator And
a cover-to-cover reader. I do not expect to agree with everything that appears in it, indeed I hold that in a civilised society a difference of opinion adds to the spice of......
Sir: Paul Johnson ('epistolary Dons', 19 Ndvember) Has...
pen on a point which has concerned me for a long time. It has always struck me as unfair that someone with a prestigious address but mundane name should get away with having......
Ways And Means
Sir: Listening to a radio programme about the great and growing problem of youth unemployment, an elegant scheme presented itself to me, and one which I think might recommend......
Sir: Like Auberon Waugh (12 November), I Read The Tablet
religiously when Douglas Woodruff was the editor. It then had a splendid masthead motto. It deserves capitals: 'PRO ECCLESIA DEI, PRO REGINA, ET PRO PATRIA'. What better......
What Pots?
Sir: You write (Notebook, I October) that Sir Ernest Debenham, the department store magnate, bequeathed his collection of Korean and Chinese ceramics to the Victoria and Albert......
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