... Tlhie IReceinift IEsqplcssioinis aim ILoimdloini Sftireefts Pi e have received the following Letter from a Corre spondent concerning the recent Gas Explosions and if a, cr Main Bursts in various London streets. T he writer, Mr. H. J. Gathercole is a practical builder of wide experience. He was associated, as clerk oj the works with the reconstruction of Inveresk house now occupied by T he ...

... . >r y -K-^P. V V H *CT|| E By Harry Graham. TAear George, It does not require the per- 1 spicacity or acumen of a Sherlock Holmes i to detect the fact that this is Horse-Show week. The streets are crowded with clean-shaven and somewhat stunted individuals whose elliptical nether limbs are encased in close-fitting garments which cannot possibly have been donned without i the aid of a shoe horn ...

... . A LETTER FROM THE SPHERE'S CORRESPONDENT WITH THE RUSSIAN ARMY. Russian Army, 3/9/17. My Dear Mr. Editor, I have not received The Sphere for some weeks. I hope that you have heard from me more regularly and frequently. Of course, I have very much news but alas I cannot tell you it Personal news I am well in spite of the very severe nerve strain of the past months. Also all is fairly well ...

... T Tnder this title the Editor is printing letters of special interest which he receives from his readers. The following is from an English reader at Cannes Dear Sir,- In your edition of March 17 I see you advise a correspondent, inquiring about Vitznau, on the Lake of Lucerne, to go in preference to Weggis as being quieter. May I say that I spent three months last summer in Vitznau, p.nd a ...

... OPENING of the ART EXHIBITION SEASON. II A LONDON LETTER. By Harry Graham. I DEAR GEORGE,-- I am sorry to hear that you won't be back in time to attend this year's private view at the Royal Academy. I never miss that social function if I can help it, for of all forms of artistic entertainment this seems to me to be at once the most stimulating and the most suggestive. It is, of course, the ...

... A FEW DAYS AGO A Random Chronicle. By V. V. V. I wish the inadequate term, Huns, had never been applied to our blackguard foe. The Huns belonged to the dark ages and are no more. The Germans are not Huns-- they are Germans. In the search for a fitting word for an enemy capable of the callous and monstrous methods of aggression now in force, from well-poisoning and gas suffoca tion to the ...

... The Editor of The Racing Pigeon writes: Dear Sir, I trust you will allow me space to contradict some of the mis-statements of Mr. Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald and to present a less prejudiced view of what pigeon-fanciers are hoping to do and also to give you the latest news of the situation. It is particularly damaging to the sport when he says that birds were released at Rennes and Dol under bad ...

... . IAear George, It would be idle, I suppose, to expect a coal- heaver to display any marked delicacy of feeling. At the same time, when you consider that I gave the man a Christmas box of a shilling onlv a month ago I do think he might have waited until the cold snap was over and I had replenished my cellar before selfishly deciding to down sacks. That he should have thus thought lessly ...

... I . n g I By Harry Graham, i l I TYear George, I am sorry to think that you will miss the Naval and Military Tourna- ment, for I am given to understand that this year's programme at Olympia is to be distin- SS guished by a notable number of particularly interesting features. There is to be, first of all, a grand historical spectacle arranged by a well- j| known member of Parliament showing the ...

... London Region Salvage Drive, September 13-27. SALVAGE DEPARTMENT, MINISTRY OF SUPPLY, LONDON, S.W.I. The Editor, Dear Sir, August 25, 1941. I shall he glad if you will print this letter in your valued journal with a view to drawing the attention of your many readers to the great Salvage Drive which is being undertaken by this Department in collabora tion with the various local authorities ...

... ; By A. A. Milne. Our contributor here makes merry over the accident in surance offer of the Daily Mail and The- Datly Chronicle but nevertheless the far-seeing father' of a family will fill in the forms of both these journals each day, and he will certainly be wise if, as is' pro bable, he has filled in the one signature required with a year's subscription' for The Sphere £2,000 accident ...

... c j . By Harry Graham. ear George, I agree with every word you jjj say in deprecation of our modern London jjj street cries. They seem to me to be distin- jjj guished not only by a total absence of melody but jjj also by a lack of intelligibility which tends to jjj stimulate the imagination unhealthily without in jjj any way allaying curiosity. Day after day as I jjj sit at the open window of ...