Englishman's Word
Sir: I have read much in your pages recently about the value, of the pound sterling and the curreaa problems in the British economy, but I wonder if you know how,eXT asperating......
Chancing It
Sir: People sometimes dart into pedestrian crossings in front of approaching traffic so suddenly as to be a danger to themselves and all concerned, but they don't usually boast......
Waugh Bash
Sir) The ' generation gap' — the ' cultural gap' — class and prac tically every other division separates me from Auberon Waugh. Only a mutual interest in The Spectator, albeit......
Brogan On Wilson
Sir: Since Professor Brogan criticises the late Edmund Wilson's accuracy, should not he himself have 'Thought of Rosie ' instead of Remembering Daisy? C. I. M. Williams 40......
Death In Zanzibar
Sir: I went to Zanzibar fifty years ago to train Arab and African teachers. Aboud Jumbe, the present 'ruler of Zanzibar, was one of my African pupils in the 'thirties. He was a......
Lullaby
Sir: The subject set in your recent competition ' Lullaby for a modern infant' reminds me of such a berceuse which appeared in Sellar and Yeatman's And Now All This (Methuen) in......
Solzhenitsyn
From Dr Konstantin Bazarov Sir: David Burg (Letters, August 26) blandly assumes that Solzhenitsyn's hostile attitude to the arrg/Feifer biography is based on a misunderstanding......
Juliette 's Weekly Frolic
The seasonal sports of ' Leger-bashing ' is with us once more. The glorious culmination of the triple crown or the dumping ground of a ' B ' stream who failed to win their......
Soviet Dissent
Sir: I apologise to readers for having misled them about Tibor Szamuely, whom I must thank for having corrected me (Letters, August 5). I note that he is not, as I have been......
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