12 MARCH 1954, page 16

Sir,-since The Article Headed 'sidelight ' Ants ' A Number

of questions which appear to be addressed to me, may I be allowed to answer them ? Contributor is ready to assume that respon- sibility. I do not know " what the retention of......

Spcw

Sta,—Sir Compton Mackenzie is, as I expected him to be, kind and courteous, but we are still at cross purposes. The difficulty is that each regards himself as the defender of......

Critic Between The Lines

SIR,—I must again thank Miss Laura Deane for a chivalrous and very witty letter. I appre- ciate Mr. Kingsley Amis's candour. I am enthusiastic about his first novel, Lucky Jim,......

Sia,—mr. Lang Appears To An Extent To Ha. E Misinterpreted

the recommendations of the Central Advisory Committee for Education in Wales, but nevertheless he voices a very real fear of English-speaking Welshmen and Englishmen domiciled......

Sir,- - Miss Laura Deane Has Surely Answered Her Own...

There are many of us, admirers of all these good ladies, who would be prepared to place the poetical works of L. E. L. and Ella Wheeler Wilcox almost precisely upon a level with......

Mr. Balfour's Poodle Sir,--in His Excellent Review Of Mr....

Poodle Lain Hamilton raises a parenthetical doubt if Morley himself wrote the formula confirming the King's readiness to create new peers or was provided with it. Morley's......

General Templer

SIR, --Having returned recently from a short but exhaustive tour of Malaya, 1 hope 1 may add a few comments on the Templer-Purcell controversy. Mr. Carnell, in your issue of......