13 JANUARY 1967, page 15

Slit,—mr Auberon Waugh's Lucid Sermon (december 23) Was...

considerable interest, I am sure, by your readers; as were, likewise, his little critics' views as embodied in their letters published in your issue of December 30. Mr Dossetor......

Japanese Thunderclap

Sta,—In reading the SPECTATOR these seven years and in visiting this country for the third time in four years, I have been struck by the recent increase in sympathetic interest......

Under The Needle

RECORDS By CHARLES REID wo massive new opera recordings have given me and my turntable much to get devoted and busy about. First : Otto Klemperer's Don Giovanni (HMV, eight......

A Christmas Sermon

SIR,—It is not easy to understand Mr Heckstall- Smith's difficulty (Letters, January 6). It is, of course, true that Acton, along with Cardinal Newman, Bishop Dupanloup,......

A Question Of Gender

SIR,—Surely a female priest (Letters, January 6) should officially be called a clergywoman, and col- loquially a parsonette? Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bristol 8 PETER FLINN......