" HUMAN UNDERSTANDING AND ITS WORLD "
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Snt,—In his review of my book, Human Understanding and Its World, in your issue of December 17th, Mr. F. Sherwood Taylor represents me as declaring that " the notions of matter, form, substance, space and time are therefore to be rejected or at least recognised as human abstractions." It is .with some dismay that I read that anything in the book will bear this interpretation. Nowhere, as far as I am aware, do I propose the discarding of any of the human powers of idea- forming, and indeed any such proposal would deserve ridicule. What I do propose is that these human powers should be used in a fashion that is different from that which is at present habitual, and especially that man should read all his images in terms of power and so alter their present dual interpretation in terms of power and of matter.—Yours truly, 41 Gloucester Place, K. W. MONSARRAT. Londorg W.r.
DOVER TO LUXEMBOURG
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I recently had occasion to go to Luxembourg, travelling via Dover, Calais, Lille and Longwy. I paid second-class return from Dover to Luxembourg £4 6s. 2d. The land journey is about 262 miles each way and the price 314 French francs. At the current rate of exchange this works out at k2 3s., so that it appears to cost as much to go from Dover to Calais and back as from Calais to Luxembourg and back !-
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