Rates And Officials' Expenses.
SIR,—Pharos attributes Rutland's low rates to the fact that, since the county is so small, 'officials are happily precluded from charging such expenses as travelling and meals......
Sir,--it Is Commonly Assumed That The Only Possible...
crime is a threat of apprehension and punishment for wrongdoers. But there may be a more effective form of deterrence: a promise of recognition and reward for rightdoers. It is......
About Mr. Forster
SIR,—Like Taper, I am always glad of an excuse to talk about Mr. Forster, and when he describes Ansell, in The Longest Journey, as a 'whole-hog subjectivist' I rise to Ansell's......
Le Son Du Cor
SIR,—Strix's bewilderment ('Le Son du Cor') is unjustified, for his problem is merely musicological. The serpent of his road sign is not ophidian but is, of course. le serpent......
Refugees
Sig,—Few of your readers could fail to have been moved by Sarah Gainham's article, in your issue of August 21, on the difficulties of refugees still re- maining in camps in......
Science Fiction
SIR,—In his interesting but difficult article on 'Soviet SF,' Mr. Maurice Goldsmith makes a number of mis- statements about American science fiction. Since almost every......
Noise
SIR,—Sir Adrian Boult recently suggested a 'forceful campaign againSt noise.' Sir Adrian himself could do much to suppress the excessive and noisy (f ff) applause at Promenade......
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