31 MARCH 1973, page 25

From Professor W. H. C. Frend. Sir: The Weakest Part

of the White Paper on Northern Ireland Is indeed it's omission of any specific mention of education, but I believe an attempt to impose secularisation on schools woild be......

Thomas Hardy

Sir: I read Barbara Hardy's review of Donald Davie's Thomas Hardy and British Poetry (March 10) with disappointment at what seemed to me her misrepresentation of both the scope......

Box Populi

Sir: You have published nothing better from the pen of Simon Raven than 'Milton Shulman and the box populi ' (March 17) — a superb philippic on philistine values. Of course much......

Juliette's Weekly Frolic

Unless you possess supreme confidence in your judgement, information or pre-race dreams, the Grand National should be approached like the lottery it is. You don't honestly......