24 OCTOBER 1952, page 16

Working To Rule

Suit,—Will you permit me to call attention to one aspect of the situation on the railways extremely disturbing to the mind of the ordinary layman, namely the admitted fact that......

I Walked Into The Library And What Do You Think

I saw ? In the section marked Biography twelve books on Bernard Shaw. 0 happy Uncle Bernard ! 0 enviable fate ! Was ever any dramatist so truly up to date ? No wonder that......

Closing The Abbey

Sot,-1 share the surprise of Janus and Mr. John Satterly that it should be necessary to close Westminster Abbey for six months to make it ready for the Coronation; but I hope......

"shaw's Corner"

Snt—Derek Hudson, in a review of Shaw's Corner, states that Bernard Shaw " listed a number of serious errors" in my previous volume. Perhaps your reviewer may care to let me......

The Lapps' Survial

Sut—My attention has just been drawn to Mr. Michael Graham's article, Extinction of the Eskimo ? • (October 3rd). Cultural fatigue is becoming an increasing sociological problem......

Shaw's Reputation

Snt—Janus asks in your current issue why Shaw's reputation should go into eclipse. Is it not because he expressed so well and an long the spirit of an age which came filially to......

Bevanite Broadcasting

Sot, — In his article on the controversy within the Labour Party, Mr. Gaitskell omitted to mention another sphere of propaganda in which -the Bevanites excel. He is certainly......

Silt—derek Hudson Is Rather Severe On Stephen Winsten's...

in spite of the author's frank admission that it is a series of memories and not reports. One cannot help wondering whether Johnson's comments on Boswell would not have been......