19 APRIL 1945, page 14

Country Life

THE beauty of the English countryside has been surpassing. In my neighbourhood the blackthorn was a near rival even to the wild cherries ; and every fruit tree in every garden......

The Japanese Mind

SIR,—The Rt. Rev. Bishop Heaslett's admirable article on the Japanese Mind is a timely warning to any sympathetic observers, in the occident, of Admiral Suzuki's condolence to......

Universities And " Independents "

SIR,—None could dissent from the paragraph on university M.P.s in "A Spectator's Notebook" last week. May I, however, remind " Janus," my fellow graduates and your readers in......

The Rhodes Scholarships

SIR,—Sir Francis Wylie has done good service in disposing—it is to be hoped for good and all—of the legend which has grown up round the number of scholarships under the Rhodes......

Roger Fry And Sir Osbert Sitwell

SIR, —Colonel Bonamy Dobree in an otherwise most generous review of my book, Left Hand, Right Hand, in your issue of April 13th, makes one inference against which I must......

The Horror Camps

§nt,—The horrible facts found in Buchenwald Concentration Camp provoke the following suggestions: As vast a number of Germans as possible should be made witnesses now and in......

Bones Of Contention

Sut,—Your reviewer of the book Bones of Contention is correct in attributing to Schiller the words " against stupidity even the gods fight in vain," although I believe there......