17 AUGUST 1944, page 12

Private Schools

StR,—In the recent proposals for educational reform, and the comments on them that have so far appeared, there are two matters whose importance has been far too little......

The B.m.a. Questionary

SIR,—Your analysis of the results of the B.M.A. questionary brings out clearly three important points: (i) Slightly over half the replies were unfavourable to the White Paper as......

Ovid And St. Paul

SIR, —Is it pedantic to point out that when Ovid wrote "Video proboqut, deteriora sequor " he was not describing his own state of at all? The words are part of a soliloquy which......

" Cottager's Light "

have recently bought this small disused farmhouse, to turn a home for myself and my family and thus reduce by one the ho shortage. As electricity mains run along the end of my......

Price Stability

SIR,—Mr. St. Clare Grondona suggests the setting up by the British Government of a Price Stabilisation Corporation to keep price fluctua- tions within narrow limits. Isn't......

"government Of The People "

SIR,—In his review of Professor Laird's essay, " The Device' of. Gov ment," Professor D. W. Brogan, commenting on the Gettysburg Ad suggests that. Professor Laird has not......

Seaside Scaffolding

Sn1,—The wooden scaffolding and platforms, whose erection "above sea on a western bay " is criticised by your contributor "Nurna pilius," are not for the use of " marine......

Stti,—the Statistics Culled From This Questionary Are A...

contra- dictions and inconsistencies, and totally valueless, particularly as less than 5o per cent. answered. This new profession of obtaining opinions by means of......

The Only Christian Sir,—" His Platoon—i Happen To Know That

W is the only an it contains—." - Thus Mr. C. S. Lewis in his article published in issue of July 28th. But does -he personally know all the other men the platoon, their daily......

Catholics And Fascism

Snt,—Mr. J. V. Walker replies to Mr. Patrick Henson by putting a number of questions, of which two are cardinal to the rest. He asks for a definition of Fascism. A historically......