26 JANUARY 1940, page 20

Motorists And Pedestrians

Sta,—Your paragraph concerning the " Record Road Carnage " ends with a recommendation that the carnage should be miti- gated by compelling pedestrians to carry torches in the......

The Rest Of Our Lives

note that your correspondents accept the article " The Rest of Our Lives " in a recent issue with equanimity. The writer of this article would no doubt lay no claim to gifts of......

Sin,—with Reference To The Paragraph Under " A...

" in your issue of January 19th, will you allow me to suggest that the trouble arises from the fact that, however carefully a motorist drives, he cannot under the present light-......

Sir,—in Mr. Hugh Gough's Excellent Appreciation Of W. Ic...

he says: " . . is as incomprehensible as the author's popularity. . . ." I cannot follow the reasoning. SurelY Mr. Jacobs's work is popular for all the best possible reasons. If......

Competition No. 16

Snt,—Mr. Bernard Shaw once remarked that the best way to elicit the truth of a subject was to argue it with reckless bias for and against. Mr. Geo. Jackson will perhaps bear......

Snt,—dr. Bevan Has Misunderstood My Point About The Sixth...

The validity of the Commandments, as far as Christians are concerned, has nothing whatever to do with anyone's views about the Old Testament. It depends not on when or where or......

Orchard's Bay "

SIR,—I have carefully re-read Mr. Alfred Noyes's Orchard's Bay after the warm defence of the book by Mr. Charles Tennyson, and although my opinion of its literary valu, remains......

The Sixth Commandment

Snt,—Dr. Bevan's letter is at pains to demolish a molehill which has not yet been thrown up. No pacifist, arguing against war from the command " Thou shalt not kill " does so on......