12 NOVEMBER 1965, page 15

The Fall Of Babylon

SIR,---I can assure Mr. Alistair Home that I had no intention of patronising him nor do I think that I did so. I thought his device of using the siege of Leningrad as a......

Fair Play For Arthur!

SIR,- Congratulations to Penelope Maslin on getting one fact into last week's amusing article ('Long Live King Arthur'). 'There are, naturally,' she says, 'the Welsh-speaking......

The Age Of Majority

SIR,—As the law now stands, people under twenty- one cannot marry without their parents' or the court's consent; they can be made wards of court for a variety of reasons; there......

In Kensington Gardens

SIR, — Reference 'In Kensington Gardens,' the reply 'They're courtiers' seems not so 'astonishing'—if Mr. Bryan Robertson was among those present that evening at Kensington......

Sit ,--penelope Maslin Deserves To Be Deported From Wales In

a coracle for her flippant verdict on the Welsh, their history and their language. There is something to be said, however, for making it solitary confinement at Caernarvon in a......

Before Rome

SIR, — Dr. Daniel's review of the first volume in my series The History of Human Society, Prehistoric Societies, by Grahame Clark and Stuart Piggott, calls for comment. Firstly......

The Sex War

the final, triumphant paragraph of her letter (November 5), Claire Rayner writes: 'I am now going to behave in a very "feminine" way, and crow. . . .' One can only hope she is......