22 JANUARY 1954, page 14

Critic Between The Lines

SIR, — To my great amusement, a Mr. Anthony Hartley, reviewing my Gardeners and Astronomers, states: The last lines of ' A Song of the Dust' show a greater measure of......

The End Of "scrutiny "

Sta,—The news of " the premature decease of Scrutiny" in your editorial note on De:em- ber I 1th, 1953, shocked' and dismayed a number of us engaged in the teaching of English......

National Art Collections

plete official list of the Courtauld Fund pic- tures. The Renoir ' Nude' did not figure on this list and in answer to my enquiries as to its fate I was told that it had been......

J. C. Maxwell King's College, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1

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Scottish Nationalism

SIR,---Having read the recent correspondence on the Scottish situation I should like to put before you one or two viewpoints which . have occurred to me and which do not seem to......