Letters To The Editor
From: Geoffrey Strickland, Cyril Ray, Edward and Margaret Barr, Ben Whitaker. Lewis Hastings, V. C. Hawkins, Evelyn Waugh, The Reverend H. R. Wilson, S. Godman, John Dodd, David......
Edwardian Life
Sin,—Pace Mr. Dibley, see River,. 1896, August 8 'The news has gone forth from one end of Wood Street to the other that the Prince of Wales has purchased a "boater" and will......
Sir,—in At Least One Part Of Yorkshire A Straw Hat
was called a 'benjie.' I never learned why. Hooton Pagnell Vicarage, Doncaster......
National Savings
Sia,—The wife of your correspondent Mr. C. D. V. Gover (July 30) has, I am afraid, been misinformed in the post office she visited. Anyone may open a Post Office Savings Bank......
Sir,—quoodle, We Know, Thinks That Man Is Noseless; But...
on this occasion it is Quoodle who is shown to be deficient. The reason why so many of the best restaurateurs object to pipe-smokers is that the smell is offensive to other......
Mozart And Bach
SIR,—I am puzzled by the , following statement by Professor Brogan in his review of The New Col' bridge Modern History: 'I might note that in the admirable contribution on......
The Anti-whites
SIR,—Mr. Colin Legum protests too much. Nobody who knows anything about him would suggest he was a Communist, nor would such a horrid impu- tation be valid in the case of those......
No Pipes
SIR,—I am delighted to learn that when Mr. Quoodle, Mrs. Quoodle and friends dined at 'one of London's best restaurants' the .head waiter refused to allow pipe-smoking; I wish......
A Matter Of Judgment
SK—R. A. Cline's statement last week that 'if a Queen's Bench judge imposes a sentence of fourteen or even twenty-four years, no one has any right to curtail the period' is......
The Growth Of Private Medical Care
in the Spectator of July 23 with much interest. May I SIR,—I have read Mr. Vaughan's article Mtn out that the Hospital Savin g Association (of idoo) is a member .of the British......