17 DECEMBER 1948, page 16

State Versus 'school

SIR,—The Headmaster of the Leys accuses me of ignoring facts. Surely, what I am doing is to face up to them. I know what the attitude of some of the universities is. Personally,......

The Atlantic Pact

Si,—The Atlantic Pact seems likely to be based on the Rio and Brussels treaties; the purpose of this letter Is to suggest that it should draw also on another source—the......

Bos Well On The Northern Circuit

Sta,—In my letter to you on the above subject I confess that by a slip of the pen I wrote quaere by mistake for quare. Poor, however, as are both my latinity and my penmanship,......

Painting As A Pastime

SIR,—When Janus quotes Mr. Winston Churchill as "the high authority" for saying, "All the greatest landscapes have been painted indoors," I feel an itch to challenge the......

Kingsley And Marx

SIR,—Prof. Bonamy Dohree, in his review of Dame Una Pope-Hennessy's Canon Charles Kingsley, states that Kingsley (as Parson Lot) struck out "a phrase another was to popularise,......

Level Crossings

SIR,—Janus's animadversions on level crossings err on the side of leniency. In this age of mechanical transport they are the invention of the devil. I live in a semi-urban -......