30 JANUARY 1959, Page 29

Sitt,—Mr, John Hale ('Art in Oxford') reveals that 'Durer's praying

hands are no longer drawing-pinned beside one out of every three beds in the women's colleges.' For some of us non-Oxford chaps interested in such aspects of a liberal education, would he explain how he knows la) that they once were, and lb) that they now aren't?----Yours faithfully,

42 Tedworth Square, SW3

JAMES CAMFRoN