17 AUGUST 1956, page 15

Historic Churches

SIR,—Few right-minded people are likely to disagree with the remarks of Mr. John Betjeman on this subject but, as an ordinary layman with no particular ecclesiological......

Sir,—mr. Campbell's Quip Is So Trite It May Be Allowed

to pass without comment. But I cannot let pass the revolting accusation that 1 or my friends write 'Lallans.' What ate Lallans? It sounds like a cow chewing the cud. The......

Women In Antiquity

.SIR, Will you kindly allow me to thank Mr. Seltman for his letter, and to say that it is an error to suppose my• criticism of the review upon the book Women in Antiquity was......

Glyndebourne

SIR,—Mr. Colin Mason. in your issue of July 13, filled most of his space in lauding the English singers working at Glyndebourne this year. Excellent. But he associates this with......

Benjamin Hall

SIR,—1 am collecting material for a biography of Sir Benjamin Hall, afterwards Lord Llanovcr of Abercarn (1802-1867), and would be grateful if any of your readers in possession......

Pen New Poems Sir,—for The Past Five Years Pen Anthologies

of new verse have appeared under the imprint of Messrs. Michael Joseph Ltd., and you have been kind to enough to allow me to invite your readers to submit poems for considera-......

Balanced Tv Sta.—pharos In 'a Spectator's Notebook' On...

says it is simply untrue that £750,000 was provided in the Television Act for the support of balancing programmes. He goes on to say that the possibility of un- balance was only......