OUR LETTER BOX

Observer, Volume XL, Issue 14, 6 December 1919, Page 32

OUR LETTER BOX

J.G.F. —No information. V.R.—Declined without tears. Chris. —You are quite right! "Hostile" is the word..

T.Y.—lt is a variant of a jest that showed signs of mildew when Chaucer was a boy.

Foch.—The incident might be revived a-t the anniversary, but is not at present applicable. Effie.—Graceful tribute to your own work received. Your estimate is accepted.

P.l.T.H.—Furious diatribe ou matter concerning your own affairs of no public interest.

Fbed.—Very good verses. If you had written them yourself you might well be proud. Bookwokm .-—lnformation unavailable. Write Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton, London, who are the publishers.

H.F.D.—There is. nothing in your "licensing argument," whi6h has been used for a generation or two, and has convinced no one. X.—Sketch made with a scratchy pen on absorbent paper of an alleged cow in a paddock with a man gazing at her and containing a. written reference to party politics received. "If accepted, please send me twelve dozen 'Observers in payment." Would a cheque for a thousand be any good to you ?