10 NOVEMBER 1961, page 14

The Lost Tribes Of Reading

SIR,—In your issue 'of October 20 Monica Furlong contributed an article under the heading 'The Lost Tribes of Reading' in which she treated with disparagement, and with some......

Sir, — A. F. Blanchard Writes That On October 21 'only 800

members could be organised to sit down at the Russian Embassy.' 1 had to read his letter through twice to make sure that he was not being subtly ironic and was really on the......

Ronald Knox's New Testament Sir, — Your Correspondent Mr....

to convince me that the Catholics have in their possession original manuscripts of the New Testament written in Hebrew. Ronald Knox in his famous footnote to Matthew 1, 25,......

Fischer Verlag

SIR, — The interesting item concerning this pioneering German publishing house in your issue of November 3 could not, of course, include more than a very few of the illustrious......

Basic Slag

SIR,—Members of the AMA are in no doubt of the strength of Charles Brand's case for the highly qualified specialist teacher doing work of grammar school standard. Indeed, the......

Impertinent Advertising

SIR,—When my car came back from the garage, where anti-freeze had been put in. it was variously decorated In the top corner of the windscreen, readable from the outside too, was......