CENSORSHIP SIR,-May I once more draw the attention of enlightened public opinion through your coluimnls to the invidious long-term eftects of judgements of literary worth of...

MENTAL HEALTHMANSHIP Siit,-I must apologise to 'Mr. S.' that, in 'leaning over backwards' to be fair to the authority I was criticising, I was in my article Icss than fair to...

SIR,-I am puzzled by one sentence in Mr. Christo- pher Hollis's otherwise understanding and sympathetic review of Stafford Cripps's career. The years between 1931 and 1935...

Letters to the Editor A Christian Gentleman Hulg/ Dalton, MP, Frank Hlorrabin Mental IHIealthliitianship Dr. Donald AM(. Jo/hnson, MP Taper and the Welsh H1. V. S. Page, 7ape...

NOT SURPRISING SIR,-Mr. David Watt writes: 'To find the plays written about the past are nearly always inferior to those written in it is infuriating, but I suppose it is not...

TAPER AND THE WELSH Smi,-Clcdwyn Hughes is right: Taper's ill-judged remarks have fanned Nationalist feeling in Yorkshire to fever pitch. Terrorist gangs of dialect comedians,...

w SIR.-Mr. Cledwyn Hughes, MP, is in a great tizzy about my rcferences to the House of Comm11on's debate on Welsh affairs. But he mustn't think that the readers of the...

IRISII PEERS SI 4 -- Stiurily Mr .1 John Betjmllil, aldt lotigh an ;at htlorily Oil hI S StlrhjCC. nods wSWhell 11C SaIyS tllht ';i,1 Irish pecis [. peiarges] hegi nnring withi...

OUT OF THE E[AST AND) TIlE WAY BACK SIRi.- MI. I inlgl ael- p Is to hasv a gift for j mi tog to ihe wrong coniclusion. I did, ill fact, read his airticle - twice. Nor won0 I I...

IHOLD TIGIHTLY Silk,---Is it possible that vour original COI-I-Co)rrelsCone did not hear right'? Yesterday thc sprightly concluctress of my No. 16 bus callcd out distinctly...

I'TEIINOLOGISTS' 'T'RAINING Sm-- In a letter to YOU published in yourl issuLC of I cbruary 22 about the arrangements nade for thc attendance of young Government scientists at...

Sm, Anyone cven slightly injercsited in the work, not to saiy the anflics. ol o r con!lcil lpolrary poets k nows thit t he ant hology N Li,,, edited by Robert (n n1estLvUsl was...

(CR I)E CGEUR Sm,----SAlniost everybody is convinced that they could write 'it' they had the timc,' or 'it, !' for did they not learn to read and write at school'? Plerhaps...

SIR.----Spcak ing of tlhe p)CCU iaritics of, Londoni TIaIS- port, and elsewherC, I hdve never noticed anvoile da wd ling when Clntering or a ligltitng from a bus or1 U...

SACRED COWS SIR,---Mr. Robert COLIqucst. who reviewed a new anthology called Mavericks in vour last issue, is really becoming impossible as a critic of other pcople's poetry....

FAIR D)EAIL F"OR 'T'H1E CLERGY Si s,--1nadequLIItC clerical Stipelllfs sl ouldi cer-tajinly be considered a matter or UigeCI1t aCtion]; but the cause for their inadeuILaICY...

Siim,---T'hl problemns raiscd hy Mr. Ed illn-er. in Ilis arlicic, 'O()t of tile Fast aInd thle Way Back,' ill tlhe ( Spectlator of February 8, are, I am glad to say, becoming...

The Diver Earth is a diver in a globe Of breath who fathoms deadly space, As in the ocean we walk, dressed in glass, Or swin like puppets in an iron case. Dumnbly we plod among...

BO OKS The Great Hunger By D. W. BROGAN T ERE are, in the history of nations, watersheds T that mark the national memory; on one side is a society that can never be restored...

ONLE (:CHAPILTR Of !iOt(lainIs mlagazinlc was dC- voted to the llouse of Lords. It began well with a forthright statement of the case of rcform by Lord Altrincham (a Tory peer...

I DO NOl share whllat I find is a widespread mni- patience with London 'transport: considering its difficulties, the service it provides is admirable. But it clings to some...

WE' SHOULI) bC ,lIIImOSI grateful to those Beckenham Conservatives who protested against the adoption of Mr. Philip (Goodhart as prospective Conservative candidate on the...

TIIl' FOREIGN SElRVICES of tlle 1313C have come in for a good deal of criticism over the past years, ranging from the dull droning of' hlie Beavcrbrook press to more measuired...

PRUNING March is a prInliing month for bush and standard r(ses, altihouigl Irost must be watched. Hydrangeas, passion Ilowers, etc., can also be attenIdcd to and, of course,...

Helping Himself Bright loots. By Fred Grcsswcll. (Robert HTalc, 18s.) IN its frankness, ca~lm, and filial piety, this is a most agreeablc aCcoLnllt ol a uscful, prospelrous...

Caw Tiln wasp that flew angrily around the West End, trying to goad the late James Agate into anger, has changed into a crow; The Green Crow (W. H. Allen, 21s.), 'flying almost...

MNAARCH1 MIACic For tile ardent fislhrmallnl there is an a tii nal Ima gic attaching to March 1. On this day thle trout season opIs. Mar1;ch a111nd tile Malrch B31rwnI br1inlg...

HoNIIlN(; P(l.()NS Seeing a boy catrryingl anC exhausted hominug pigeon WhiCh 1he 1ha1d picked u1 11o hlle r ,o1d re'mllillded 11mc tilhat last year AT 1w1eh greClt numbelrClS...

Ladies and Beaux Tms new contribution to thc history of fashion, The ll1(lndook of English Costume in the Eigh tleenhth Century, by C. Willett Cunnington and hllillis...

Witches and Witch-hunters The Tormient of Secrecy. By Edward Shils. (Heinemann, I is.) I FIND this a sympathetic but irritating book. IProfessor Shils does not always SCCm to...

Space for All TIiger ! Tiger! By AIfred Bcester. (Sidgwick ind Jackson. I l2s. 6d.) 'I'le City a1n(d the Stars. lBy A 'trlll C'. (C1 1rkc. (Frederick Nitil lcr, 13 s....

The Visitors My dear old dad, when I was a lad Planning my life's career, Said 'Read for the bar, be a movie star Or travel around in lands afar As a mining engineer, But...

Facing the Pound T mi sterling countries, taken together, are just about making ends meet. That is what the gold and dollar figures for February really mean, though the picture...

Nuclear Power TiIE outlines of the new programme for nuclear power have become so familiar from frequent and fairly accurate forecasts in the press during the last few months...

The End of the Beginning T111 most significant,. news from British West Africa in the last few days has had nothing directly to do with Ghana-though indirectly it may have a...

Hospital I saw the temple in thc moonlight; But the words of power 1 did not know. And the shrine was empty and 1 might not enter. I heard the music of the voices; But they...

New Novels TIhe Bridge. I3y Pamela Eralkanl. (1-ecilcIneann. .1 6s.) iThc Trumpet Shall Sound. By H. M. Tomlinson. (1-odI(e, tld SloLughlon, 12s. 6d.) On the Haycock. By...

S!ieikhs and Oil Sultan in Oman. By James Morris. (Fabler, l 6s.) MAN) books about the Middle East have been psUblishezd rcceltly; sonie may feel too many. JamCs Morris's...

Arithmetical Regression Ludwig Wittgenstein: Remarks on the Founda- tions of Mathematics. Edited by G. H. von Wright, R. Rhees, and G. E. M. Anscombe. Translated by G. E. M....

Roman Via Mc dia ('Christ, Our Lady and the Church: A Study in Firciic TI' heology. By Yves M.-J. Congar, () O. (I ologml1afls, 8s. 6d.) F-AII IHER (IONGA, the well-known...

The Plumage and the Bird DIangcrouis Estate. By Francis Williams. (Long- mans, 24s.) A GENERAL history of the British press has yet to bz p)Ublished. One or two writers had a...

Freddy Lonsdale By WILLIAN I)OUGLAS HOME AN! not hv pirol'ession a literary critic. That l lm\" cxplain \\vii\l I auwavs rcad through ; book to the en1d. InI this instaneC, I...

THE OTHER EUROPE N OT the least of the disservices done to the West by the Middle Eastern fiasco has been the neglect of other areas of policy which demand attention less...