27 JULY 1944, page 14

Sensible Money Sir, —although It Is Now Some Years Since I

had to teach my wife, an American, how to do English meney sums, my memories of that ex- perience and of her outspoken comments remain sufficiently vivid for me to support any......

Facts About Coal Sir,—two Facts That Are Sometimes...

considering the c situation are (t) that every year of working in any given colliery incrca the distance of the coal-face from the surface, and therefore also difficulties of......

Publishers And Labour Sir,—with Reference To Mr. Harold...

Marginal Conunen. in your issue of July 2ISI, has he not omitted to take into account t question of labour? I have some reason to think that although m paper were supplied......

Sta,---dr. Stopes's Suggestion Is Wholly Admirable. The...

scheme would be immense, especially in foreign trading, and the change could be effected with little or no disturbance. But will the forces of British inertia once again triumph......

Musk Roses And Purslane

SIR,—As an interested admirer of Sir William Beach Thomas's " Country Life Notes" which appear each week in The Spectator (to say nothing of those which have appeared......

Machinery Of Peace Sir, Walter Lippmann Is As Much Of

a prophet as Wilson was: Wi indeed, gave mankind the vision of a world organisation for peace, the structure he set up disregarded the first principles of polit architecture.......

Flying Bombs And Peace Sta,—general Eisenhower Has...

infinite pot bilities of development of the flying bombs. Indeed, such devices, of a more devastating and efficient thoroughness than the present missile should provide the......

Gerard Hopkins

Sut,—As one who is writing a critical study of Father Hopkins's verse, I have read Mr. Turner's article in your last number with great interest. " Minor " is the last word I......