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or suffering' ? And this presumably of children under eleven

and by a teacher who sees them occasionally. As for their lack of response in spiritual matters, may this not be due to natural reticence with a stranger rather than to blankness of soul ? I think better of the ' children of welfare' than does Gladys Kendon and shoultl hesitate to indict a whole generation. I wonder whether she may not be contrasting the exceptional middle or upper class child of her generation with the average child of the new estates of today.--Yours faithfully, M. B. BROWN

Childwall Valley High School, Childwall Valley Road, Liverpool, lb