16 JULY 1942, page 14

Country Life

IT would perhaps increase the townsman's appreciation of the value of the land, if he saw the comfortable state of those who farm a few score of acres rather for pleasure than......

"unconvincing Assurances" Sm,—you Say In The First Note...

issue of July 3rd—" On the very day on which the Germans announce that the fall of Sevastopol was largely due to attacks by dive-bombers, Mr. Lyttelton was casting doubts on the......

Sir,—" Janus" In "a Spectator's Notebook" In Your Issue Of

the 3rd instant, gives 2,391,730 as the " effective " membership of the Church of England, a rough estimate based on the number of Easter communicants. Of course, the actual......

A Scholar's Climb Sir, —in A Review Of Mr. A. L.

Rowse's A Cornish Childhood, which appeared in last week's Spectator over my initials, I used in a purely literary sense a phrase which, it occurs to me on seeing the review in......

Percentage Of Churchgoers

Sia,—Has not " Janus " in expressing the number of Easter communi- cants in the Church Of England as a percentage of the estimated total population of the country been guilty of......

Political And Religious Liberty

SIR, —One might admire the subtlety with which" Clusius contrived last week to make "A Spectator's Notebook" the vehicle for his anti-Soviet propaganda, but for the detestable......

The Merchant Service

SIR, —Mr. Basil 'Wright in his review of Lifeline disparages the name Merchant Service. Why? Surely there is nothing finer than service, and no finer service than that which the......