Portable Harmony
SIR,—When my brother and I were small boys, in the 90's, 'we were given an " Orchestrianette," a hand-operated mechanical organ. Its tone was like that of portable harmoniums,......
Penn And Mead
SIR,—Sir Norman Birkett's review of the new edition of George Fox's Journal is very interesting, like all his writings. But if he will look at the brass tablet on a wall inside......
The Sawyer Trap
SIR,—With regard to rabbit snares mentioned in the Spectator of August 22nd, the R.S.P.C.A. recommends the " Sawyer Trap " as the best humane device hitherto invented for......
Natal's Preoccupations
Snt,—Shongweni • is not " on the fringe of Zululand "; it is between Pietermaritzburg and Durban. " Kaffir " is no: onger used in polite speech or writing. It is resented by......
Composting
SIR,—Your contributor Ian Niall is not, I think, correct in his note on compost in the Spectator of August 22nd. By suitable management of a compost heap a temperature of some......
The Conquest Of Death
SIR,—I wonder whether the enclosed sonnet will serve to express the feelings of a good many of your readers on the Fear of Death. It was composed twenty-five years ago while I......
Sermons Right And Wrong In Almost All Discussions On The
decrease in Church atten- dance one reason given is the quality of the sermons and their failure to meet the spiritual needs of today. This criticism may be just or unjust. In......
Confiscation
SIR,—In your issue of August 29th and under the heading of " The Case of Herr Krupp" you state that "confiscation of private property in Germany has never been part of the......
Spooner And Smith -sta,—in Reviewing Lady Peck's A Little...
does not Mr. Cyril Ray give his Oxford a false perspective ? He writes as if Spooner belonged to an earlier generation than A. L. Smith. But A. L. was already dead when Spooner......
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