27 AUGUST 1954, page 15

Sir,-1 Have Followed With Interest, But Growing...

contributions to the current discussion, upon the subject of Scottish Nationalism which have appeared of late in the Spectator. My bewilderment springs from the indifference......

Truth And The Dying

SIR,—Your readers may be growing weary of the exchanges between Mr. Cranston and myself; and this must be my last contribution, If Mr. Cranston thinks that nurses who keep......

Childhood Paintings

SIR.—I am anxious to trace the whereabouts of childhood work (before the age of 15) of the following celebrated artists: Sir David Wilkie, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and Pierre......

Sta,—in Your Last Issue Mr. R. E. Muirhead, In A

letter whose terms we in Scotland know almost by heart, lamented the past failure of Scottish Home Rule Bills even when sup- ported,. ostensibly at least, by many Scots MPs. For......

The Road To Heaven

SIR,—Glaux's amusing comments in A Spectator's Notebook' on the lines of Dr. Isaac Watts do less than justice to this - eighteenth-century hymn writer and poet. Although the......

Selectors' Choice \ .

SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. W. John Tristram, of Colwyn Bay, does not agree with part of my recent criticism of the critiques of some of the critics' of cricket, who in my view......

Science And Progress

SIR.—I n the article ' Dilemma ' _svhich appeared in the Spectator on August 13, Sir Carleton Allen surely introduces some confu- sion by failing to distinguish between science......