24 FEBRUARY 1961, page 16

Home Is Where Your Heart Aches

Sta,—The plight of Mordecai Richler upon his return to Montreal after eight years in London deserves sympathy; to know London well is to love it. And yet perhaps Montreal too......

Sir, — Miss Katharine Whitehorn Speaks Of 'the Highly...

Own and the less successful Woman's Realm and Woman's Day.' In fairness to the editor and staff of Woman's Realm, which was launched under my editorial management just three......

Sir,—i Have Not Seen The Play Flags Ain't Wot They

Used T'Be, and doubtless that will be held against me. But if the situations described in the Censor's letter are accurate, as they must be since they are not contested, how can......

Sir,—your Dramatic Critic Must Have As Low A Taste In

pubs as he has in humour if he describes as 'harmless little jokes and gestures' the material complained of in the letter from the Lord Cham- berlain's Office to the Garrick......

The Licensing Laws

SIR,—No doubt a too detailed consideration of special cases makes for bad law, but something might be . done during the current debates on the new Licensing Laws to make the lot......

Sir,—the Crack Is Sometimes Made Against Politicians That...

first get the facts right—they can twist them afterwards! In the expectation that your contributor Mr. Leslie Adrian might like to follow the same precedent, I am writing to......

Sir,— Poor Livy! Mr. Finley Puzzles Me By Denying The

title of .'history' to his work. After all, 'Horatius on the bridge, Coriolanus, the rape of Lucretia,' and the other legends (my gloss on one of which is quoted with the......