24 DECEMBER 1954, page 14

Shelley Plain

SIR,—I should like to express my warm appreciation of Mr.- John Wain's interesting and generous review of my book, Flight of the Skylark. May I be allowed to point out one small......

Sir,—there Was A Time When Shaw Contemp- Tuously...

critics who ought to be newsboys. Mr. Gilbert Harding is no doubt a joy to millions. So is ' Mrs. Dale's Diary' and ' The Grove Family,' and I would be the last to suggest that......

A Future For Spastics

SIR,—Mr. Kingsley Amis's sympathetic article rightly stresses the spastic's need for early diagnosis, treatment and special education during the first years of life. But the......

The Rights Of Property Sir,—i Was Very Gratified To Read

the article by Sir Carleton Allen on Mrs. Woollett in your issue of December 10. The dangers of the kind of legislation which is now on the statute books and which in many ways......

Holyrood House, Spalding

Sts,—Writing in the Spectator of December 3 upon old buildings about_ to be destroyed, Mr. John Betjeman mentions Holyrood House, Spalding, and asks, ' Ought not [the Spalding......

Able To Perform A Specific Set Of Actions With- Out

having to exercise voluntary brain power. Religion, thought, self-reliance, the prin- ciples and practice of the art of living and the heritage of a culture have been ousted by......