12 SEPTEMBER 1940, page 13

The Scientist's Mind

SIR.—" Janus," writing of Sir J. J. Thomson (The Spectator, Sep- tember 6th), refers to the " scientist's one-track mind." It would be interesting to learn what he would have us......

Sir Henry Wood And The 44 Proms " Sir, —the Enclosed

cutting from your paper has been sent to me to- gether with a letter which embodies a very unhappy suggestion that I have been a party to having failed to broadcast the......

Threepenny Bits In Scotland

SIR,—" Janus"' observation about the number of threepenny bits in Scotland may be neither clever nor funny (why should it be either?), but it does happen to be true; there is a......

Are We Too Quixotic ?

Snt,—A thousand houses have been wrecked by air raids on the open town of Ramsgate. The bombing was, of course, deliberate and could not have been due to bad aiming, or......

Use Of The Feet

am a single woman, unfit for regular work, who walks and loves what little remains of unspoilt country. Lately I crossed about four miles of moorland in the small mid-Wales......

Sir,—an Explanation Of The Greater Use Of Threepenny...

Scot- land was given me a few years ago by a Professor of Currency and Finance who was in close touch with the Bank of England and the Treasury. This was that the Mint sent......