4 NOVEMBER 1955, page 22

Sir, —here Is One Teacher Who Heartily En- Dorses Mr....

suggestion that we press for shorter holidays. The endless summer break, originally meant (says Mr. Bentall) to let country children work on the farm, is today an outrage.......

Sir,—pharos And Your Readers May Like To Know Of The

German Welfare Council, a voluntary organisation set up to help and advise Germans living in this country. We should have been glad to advise the German girl mentioned,......

'without A Hearer ?'

SIR,—The letter of Mr. Topliss in your last issue shows that Catholics—to their credit— are not the people who allow aspersions on their history or their creed to pass un-......

'the Captain's Woman'

SIR,—Walter Clemons says that the stories in Neil Bell's book The Captain's Woman are trash. What are his qualifications for saying so? I'd like to know, as some of the best......

Sir, — In The Last Issue Of The Spectator Walter

Clemons, in reviewing my book The Captain's Woman, says that the stories are trash. I suggest that the use of so offensive and damaging a word to describe my work is un- fair......

Super-superlatives

SIR,—If Strix is still avoiding floccinaucinihili- pilification, perhaps he would care to pass on to Guinness Superlatives Limited (or better still a potential rival) a longer......

Au Pair

SIR, — Pharos's condemnation of the intolerable conditions imposed on one German girl is of course completely justified. In other respects the paragraph is misleading. Pharos......

School Holidays

SIR,—In your issue of October 28 the Re v .; Mr. Pendril Bentall declares that Mr. Vatigins" Wilkes's statement about school hours iss parish like the writer's' leads to the......