5 JUNE 1953, page 16

Sir,—mr. Ryan Has Written A Fair-minded And Highly...

of Mr. Montgomery Hyde's life of Carson. But in stressing the qualities of the indomitable counsel in-the courts, and the menacing figure on public platforms and in the House,......

Ulster's Fighting Advocate

SIR,—Mr. A. P. Ryan tells your readers, in his review of Mr. Montgomery Hyde's Carson, that Stormont, the Northern Ireland House of Parliament, is " grim "—a word, which, of all......

Tooth And Claw

SIR,—I am afraid that your note under the above heading in the issue of May 22nd may be open to misunderstanding, particularly that part' of your comment which relates to the......

Vie Gi)pertator, ,june 4th, 1553

THE COURT QUEEN VICTORIA has once more entered on that active life of business and pleasure which characterises her Majesty's residence in town. On Wednesday, she held a Court......

Myths And Matriarchs

SIR,—In a review of Miss G. R. Levy's The Sword From the Rock, Mr. Peter Green writes intemperately of: a rank growth of symbolical exe g esis, where fantasy borrowed a......

Holmes, Sweet Holmes

SIR,-1 remember seeing William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes at the Lyceum Theatre just fifty years ago and I feel sure Strix is correct in saying that " elementary, my dear......