Sir,—in His 'body And Soul' Mr. William Golding Says That
at the William Andrews Clarke Memorial Library in Hollywood is held the MS of The Importance of Being Earnest. When I visited the Manuscript Room of the British Museum in 1960 1......
Sir.—mr. N. J. Hawkins States That 'it Does Not Matter
that Nansen did not believe in God, for he showed by his actions what it was to be a true Christian.' If I, as an Englishwoman, approve of the way Nansen carried on. does that......
Suggestio Falsi
Sin,—Lord Shackleton says that he and his fellow script-writer were not responsible for certain mis- leading abbreviated quotations from Nansen's diaries that appeared in the......
Sir,-1 Am Delighted That Mr. Desmond Stewart Now Agrees With
me that the four French officers on trial in Cairo for espionage and plotting to murder Presi- dent Nasser should at the worst be called 'alleged spies' until they have had a......
Sir.—in The 'portrait Of The Week' In Your January 19
issue you reported that 'in Algiers and Oran thirty-one Europeans and Moslems were killed, and seventy wounded, by European grenade-throwers and torrimy-gunners': shocking......
Napoleon Brandy
SIR,—I am writing an article on Cognac and wondered whether any of your readers can tell me where on earth Napoleon comes into this galley. True, he did spend his last night on......
Pr
SIR,—When we read Monica Furlong's letter last week we, too, were fascinated. We searched our minds and our records to discover why we were sending material to someone who so......
Match Game
Sur,--Two points. First, if Bernard Levin's sanity is worth 3s. 6d., spend it on a Pelican, Riddles in Mathematics by Eugene P. Northrop. The Matches Game is explained on pp.......
Sir,—in Last Week's Spectator, You Are Pretty Free-...
other people's property, especially with that of poor old British Railways. Your leader-writer, discussing British Railways' report on thefts for 1961, says of certain items,......
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