21 DECEMBER 1929, Page 15

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SHI,—Mr. Lionel James is

certainly right in saying that the time for class-fusion among boys is when they are quite young. Shortly before'the War, I met a lady in Gerinany who told me that she received young Englishmen in her family; who came to study German at Marburg. She was surprised at the way they treated one another. A new arrival would be immediately questioned as to where he had been educated. If he named a Public School, he was received by his new companions with open arms, but if not they took little further notice of him. It was a great puzzle to the lady to find that education in England seemed apparently divided into two hostile camps, and this fact did not make her position as Hausfrau an easy one.—I am, Sir, &c.,