Mental Healthmanship

is true that at Gloucester, Nottingham, York, Oldham and maybe one or two other places, social psychiatric services have developed as 'isolated ex- periments' in just that......

Sir,—the Range Of Enjoyment Of A Reader Who Finds Piers

Plowman boring, and Troilus and Criseyde a 'footling rigmarole,', must be unhappily limited. Mr. Amis's article on 'Anglo-Saxon Platitudes' suggests two quotations: '1. 'Missing......

Strix Sir,—mr, Robert Waterhouse 'wonders,' In The Corre-...

of your issue of April 5, 'how many of yoUr readers are as sick of Strix' as he is. I, in my turn, wonder how many of your readers, on reading Mr. Waterhouse's venomous and......

Anglo-saxon Platitudes

SIR,—! have written Mr•. Kingsley Amis's comments on long poems in English out on a slip of paper (for ready reference) thus : - The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost: remote and......

Sir,—that A Weekly Of Such Standing As Your Own Should

publish Mr. Amis's review of a new translation of Beowulf alarms one with the renewed realisation of the power of a reputation—even a bad reputation. After Mr. -Amis has blinded......

Sir, —'it Is Tempting To Say That Nobody In Full Possession

of his faculties' could class Chaucer with Gower, or Sir Gawain with Havelock, and I should be interested to meet an English don who so con- fused his 'certificates of merit.'......

Read With Disappointment Your Corre- ' Spondent's...

in your issue of April 5. With disappointment that apparently not everybody gets the same feeling of satisfaction and agreement with the atithor on reading Strix's essays as I.......

Tbe *pettator

APRIL 14, 1832 IT is said that the Russian Government is exil- ing the Poles in thousands to Siberia, where they are destined to form new settlements. The heads of these unhappy......

Keir Hardie Sir,—i Cannot Claim To Rival Mr. Pelling's...

paedic and reverential knowledge of early British Socialism. It may be that I worded my remarks about Keir Hardie's opinions rather too sweepingly. Surely, however, the view......

Letters To The Editor

'And the Other Writer' Grahame Greene Anglo-Saxon Platitudes Peter Ure, M. R. Ridley, Burns Singer, Mary Holtby Keir Hardie Robert Blake Strix Group-Capt. Guy Tyrrell, David E.......

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