25 MAY 1951, Page 16

SIR,—May I say how shocked I am at Mr. Maclachlan's

slander of this ancient scat of enlightened humanism as a sort of hostelry for " profo- sional education." And how much it pains me, after three year's residence in the capital and. four centuries of Gordon ancestry, to be still treated as a " guest " in this country: a proof of how difficult it honestly is to feel at home in Scotland. Dangerous, too. At home we can say what we like ; i ' Edinburgh to "disparage" anything is bad taste. In Moscow it is t son.—Yours faithfully, J. B. BROADBENT.

7 Lennox Street, EdInburgh, 4.