21 AUGUST 1942, page 13

Slr,—as A Regular Reader Of The Spectator And A Number

of other jour- nals of like quality, I was particularly impressed by Mr. D. Welstead Williams's cogent article in your issue of August 7th: What sort of a people? It seemed to......

Sta,—" Janus " Makes A Timely Reference To The Archbishop's

request for prayers for seasonable weather. It should be noted, however, that such a prayer is not for rain or for fine weather, or for a particularly specified kind of climatic......

Home Guard Shooting

Sin,—May I add a few words to the most interesting article on Home Guard shooting in your number of August 14th? During the last war I spent some two and a half years as Bisley......

The Forgotten Parent

1 11,—Forgotten indeed! Mr. Roger Clarke raised an issue of some import- ce in his article of July 17th. He contended that educational reformers - ould be well advised to secure......

S R Ig,—roger Clarke's Article On " The Forgotten Parent...

your issue of July 17th was full of interest for all concerned with education, and the subsequent correspondence has stressed one or two points in con- nexion with the article.......

Seasonable Weather

Sin,—May a very ordinary " parson " venture some kind of brief answer to " Janus' " doubts about the advisability of prayers for the weather? I will not refer him—he probably......