22 SEPTEMBER 1950, page 16

Country Life

SIR.—A copy of the Spectator was sent by me weekly during the war to the head of a missionary school in Ceylon. She wrote: " I always turn first to Country Life." She was......

W C.6, Albany, W.i. Sir; You Allow A Fellow-south African To

comment onP R r i o L f. R Haa r - hoff's remarks about Mr. Cyril Ray's article, Dr. Malan's Mission? He calls it a " splenetic outburst" It was drawn to my attention by yet a......

Dogma And Fact

SIR,—Many people who are opposed to the definition of the doctrine of the Assumption would not go so far as to say that it is " divorced from intellect and reason." The real......

Sir,—it Would Seem Possible That What Is Puzzling So Many

Christians about the new dogma may be due to a misunderstanding about the sense in which the word " body " is being used. Thus Father Russell, in your issue of September 8th,......

Emergency 44 Spectators Sir,—heartiest Congratulations On...

and your success in not breaking your record of over a century. General Elec- tion? and The MacArthur Crisis were among the most stimulating and helpful articles 1 have read for......

SPECTATOR COMPETITION.No. 34 Report by Derek Hudson " Barrie told me he liked to see a woman's cloak flung over his chair," wrote Lady Kennet in her diary. A prize of f5 was......

Surrey Wilderness

SIR,—I have recently been reviving memories of places in Surrey which belong to the lives and books of two English authors. One is Pains Hill Cottage, Cobham, where Matthew......