Sir,—in The Spectator For January 31 Mr. J. M. Cohen
refers to the Oxford production of Calderon's Life is a Dream as `This first presentation in England of one of the most famous plays of the Spanish classical theatre.' This......
Sir, — A Few Weeks Ago I Read, With Awe, About The
lady clerk in a government ministry who changed her sex and then returned to 'her' job at a slightly higher salary since 'she' was now, a male and therefore entitled to a larger......
Must Protest Against The Claim Made By Mr. Cyril Ray
in his otherwise admirable article that the bowler hat is an exclusively English possession, and must draw his attention to its almost ritualistic sig- nificance amongst Orange......
The Crisis Of Trade Unionism
SIR,—Mr. Charles Curran's article on 'The Crisis of Trade Unionism' can hardly be left unchallenged, consisting as it does of superficial generalities pro- jetted from premises......
Sir,—i Am Surprised That No One Seems To Have Supplemented
the list of medicos who have been writers (Mr. Cargill's letter, January 24). Here are some more: Campion, Sir Thomas Browne, Keats, Beddoes; in our own day Axel Munthe has been......
Crown1, 1 1 1 G Glory
Sin,—Mr. Cyril Ray should most certainly have con- sulted me about Americans and bowler hats. Mr. Dean Acheson is not now, I believe, a bowler wearer and I don't know that he......
De-federating In Central Africa
SIR,—Those reactionaries or faint-hearts who would like to see the great new Rhodesia-Nyasaland Federa- tion dismembered, and a pattern of apartheid adopted, are blind to the......