Vinous Questions
SIR,—Mr. Postgate in his interesting and informative article on Yugoslavian wines on November 24 men- tioned that, as far as he was aware, the dry Zilavka was not available in......
Sir,—to Answer Two Vinous Questions In Your Last Issue: (1)
Berncasteler Doctor is 'over-advertised' in all Guides to wine, including my own, because of its name and a trivial story attached to it to the effect that the wine has a......
Down Coronation Street
SIR,—In his dressing-down of Derek Hill (Spectator, January 5) for his 'ecstatic plug' for Coronation Street, Peter Forster says, 'it should surprise nobody that television, now......
Malta Preserved
SIR,—Mr. Bradford has asked why I said that the plan shown in his book as 'the original plan of Fort St. Elmo, dated 1552' is an eighteenth-century one. On stylistic grounds the......
Suggestio Falsi Sta,—i Am Surprised That No One Has Pointed
out that Mrs. Margaret Knight's treatment of Nansen's character is a deliberate suggestio falsi. By suppressing the fact that Nansen carried a Bible on the Fram and that lie and......
Comus In The Congo
SIR,—When Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien in his 'time o f crisis' turned to Milton, would it not have been better, instead of drawing analogies with Comus, t o have seen himself as......
The Fellowship Party
SIR,—Cyril Ray may write lightly about advertise- ments for a new political group that proposes to call itself the 'National Fellowship' but we in the anti-war Fellowship Party......
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