Legal Costume

Sir: It has been suggested that the Law Courts might house a permanent exhibition illustrating the history of legal costume and appurtenances in England and Wales. Among the......

Homosexuality Without Cant

Sir: I should like to raise one or two points in connection with Mr Raven's article `Homo- sexuality without cant' (14 June). He states: 'when Christianity arose inhibi- tion......

Scalping Times

Sir : It is puzzling that Mr Waugh, who admits that he is `no close student of Indian affairs,' should be chosen to review three books on the American Indian rather than, say,......

All At Sea

Sir: Answering my letter last week (12 July), Mr Grundy tried to throw a smokescreen over the plain facts that (a) he had written that he could 'find no mention' of Vietnam in......

Sir : The Splendour Of The Writing And The Quota-

tions from the philosophers of both Mr Allsop and Mr Hogg make, if I may say so, direct thought on the existence of God more difficult than it need be (21 June). I believe it is......

The Cancerous Society

Sir: It is perhaps worth adding to Tibor Szamuely's excellent account of • Alexander Solzhenitsyn (12 July) the point that three extracts from Solzhenitsyn's novel The Cancer......

Head Man Shock

Sir : It is with much regret that I am telling out newsagent to stop sending me the SPECTATOR. It is tragic that a paper with such long and honourable traditions should have so......