The Great Shakespeare Hoax
Sir: Commander Pares is wrong in saying that I 'admit' that his 'theory' that Bacon wrote Shake- speare is worth taking time to refute. What I said was that the newer theory......
Britain's Non-role East Of Suez
Sir: The SPECTATOR of 3 February, containing Mr Enoch Powell's 'Britain's Non-Role East of Suez,' only reached me yesterday. I read the article with an interest (although I......
Afterthought
JOHN WELLS It has always seemed to me rather curious that the idea of dying should generally be regarded as so intrinsically comic. Sudden and violent death is probably the most......
Stopping The Rot Sir: May I Reply To Mr Samson
(Letters, 10 Feb- ruary) who imputes to me a censure of dentists! Not so, sir. I well know that dentists labour to teach the young the rules for good teeth. But, Mr Samson......
Cement History
SIR: I am writing a book about the early history of the cement industry. If any readers have un- published information relating to cement manu- facture during the nineteenth......