15 MARCH 1957, page 20

The Visitors

SIR,—I am amazed to find the Spectator giving space —for the second time—to a grossly disagreeable attack on Lord Noel-Buxton. Mr. Evelyn Waugh's cantankerous and undignified......

Sir,—may I Supplement Mr. Marcus Cunliffe's In- Formation...

teaching of American literature on this side of the Atlantic? Since 1953 American literature has formed an intergral part of the course for the BA Degree in modern literature in......

!rje Opectator

MARCH 17, 1832 THE English law being more than ordinarily complicated, is most properly and prudently left to be administered by twelve men taken from the common ranks of life,......

Christianity And Race

SIR,—The prominence which' your issue of February 15 gives to Mr. Mason's book Christianity and Race encourages me to write in amplification of Mr. Montefiore's article. In his......

Sacred Cows Sir,—mr. Hillborne, Unlike Mr. Greacen,...

unfairness. Part of his letter is hypothetical abuse— the silliest of controversial methods. But even when he rises to argument his concern for fairness does not extend to......

Taper And The Welsh Sm,—much As I Customarily Enjoy The

Parliamentary commentary of your correspondent Taper, I must suggest that his references to the recent debate on Welsh Affairs in the Commons took little account of the......

Sir,—you Don't Want To Listen To That Fellow Page Prating

on about the Yorkshire Home Rule Associa- tion. l'm perfectly sure there isn't such a thing. We in Yorkshire are intensely proud of the part we have played in bringing England......

Doubling The Standard Of Living Sir,—ever Since Mr. R. A.

Butler won the Nebulosity Oscar for claiming to double the standard of living in twenty-five years, I have been wondering just what that expression meant. I have, however, now......