20 AUGUST 1954, page 14

Selectors' Choice

SIR,—I cannot claim to have read all the criticisms of the Selection Committee which has recently chosen seventeen players to rep- resent us in Australia. Those which I have......

Vix And The Vase

SIR,—May I draw your attention to an error that has slipped into the very fascinating article by Darsie Gillie, Chatillon, Vix and the Vase,' in your issue of August 6? It says......

Truth And The Dying Sir,—my Dictionary Gives First Among Its

definitions of the word deceit ' ' concealment of truth.' Mr. Cameron won't have this, and insists that deceit means saying–what is not the case.' Telling lies is, of course, a......

Scottish Royal Commission

Sia,—In the article on the Royal Commission on Scottish affairs (Spectator, August 6) Mr. Sturrock Tightly indicates that the Commission was set up owing to Scottish Nationalist......

The Abdication Story

SIR,—I am pleased that my article drew a long and critical commentary from Mr. Connell on some of the Abdication sources. I must confess that I did not notice quite the same......

Science And Progress

SIR,—As another ' regrettably unscientific and untheological person' I sympathise with Sir Carleton Allen on the horns of his painful dilemma. But dilemma' implies only two......

The Crown And The Free Churches

SIR,—In a recent issue you gave space to an enquiry and a reply, as to why ministers of the Established Church of Scotland should not be entitled to seats in the House of Lords.......

The Oldest Inn

SIR,--Sir Compton Mackenzie, in his most entertaining 'Sidelight' on Somerset, raises an interesting pointdvhen he mentions the claim of the George Inn,' Norton St. Philip,......