18 NOVEMBER 1949, page 34

Post Office And Public

Sta,—Before the war I lived at Dorchester, Dorset. - To reach London by the first delivery next morning, I could post a letter in the pillar-box at 8.30 p.m.; at the post office......

44 The Blot In The Scutcheon "

SIR,—Some months ago Janus gave me a hint of his identity ; since when I have imagined I understand why the Editor tolerates his intolerances. Nevertheless, I hope that he will......

Dr. Huxley And Lysenko

SIR,—I hesitate to cross swords with Dr. Julian Huxley. I have but little experience of controversy, although I have c Cambridge training in science and a liking for objective......

Cosmo Gordon Lang

Sm,—Our loyalty to the departed seems to be supplanted by a mordant and ungenerous disparagement. And to the distress of his many friends our detractors are now hard at work on......

John B. Yeats

SIR,—In your review, by Mr. St. John Ervine, of Professor Ellmann's book on Yeats, there appears a thumbnail estimate of John B. Yeats, the poet's father, so false and virulent......

Harrow Church

Sril,—On a recent Saturday afternoon a gioup of people watching a game on Harrow School cricket fields approached me with the warning that the parish church steeple was on fire.......