4 MAY 1956, Page 9

NO SOONER had Mr. St. John Ervine delivered himself of

his wan against the Spectator Irish number, last week, wan his eye caught my reference to the Lane Pictures; it was with difficulty, he tells me, that he restrained himself 1,1(3111 sitting down to a second powerful instalment. He has his own solution to the problem; and I must say it is not the worst. 'My hope,' he writes, 'is that the Lane trouble will be settled by letting the pictures be housed in the handsome art gallery in Belfast. They would then still be in the Common- wealth and at the same time in Ireland.'