3 JUNE 1938, page 23

Scientific Films

[To the Editor of 'THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—A Scientific Film Group of the Association of Scientific Workers was formed over a year ago to encourage the growth of good instructional......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator] Sir, —in Your Issue Of

May 20th Mr. Walter Allen said : " But the problem of proletarian leisure is radical to our society. It cannot be solved by any palliatives ; the efforts of the B.B.C. and the......

" God's Providence "

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—The motto " God's Providence is my Inheritance " belongs, according to Burke's Peerage, to the Earls of Cork and This family is closely......

A Correction

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—May I correct a slip in my review of Mr. Tiisley's First Things First? " . . . his own point of the superiority of expensive education . .......

The Use Of Leisure

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-1 adopted and adapted to my own interests the method of " Rending with a Background," suggested by one of your writers a year or so back. I......

Wordsworth's Birthplace

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—As there is a real danger of Wordsworth's birthplace at Cockermouth being demolished and its site used for a ' bus station would you be so......

Thomas Atkins

[To tke Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Snt,—The question as to who was the prototype of Thomas Atkins has long been a subject of speculation. The story commonly accepted associates......

Mr. Gladstone's Epigrams

[To the Editor of THE St.Ecrarotti SIR,—Professor E. L. Woodward, in his excellent article on Mr. Gladstone (The Spectator, May 20th), remarks : " Mr. Gladstone could make......