Sut,—in His Article Under This Heading In Your Issue For
April 28th Viscount Castlereagh seems to assume Northern Ireland to be "an integral portion of Great Britain." We would be glad to know how he explains the absence of......
The Newcastle Irregularities
Sta,In your comments on the irregularities which have been revealed on the work of the Newcastle-on-Tyne City Council you refer to a slackness in the Council's administration......
De Valera's Last Chance"
Snt,—In your issue of April 28th, in his article on Mr. de Valera, Viscount Castlereagh referred to the inhabitants of Northern Ireland as "Ulster Scots," which I take leave to......
Finding The Teacher; Sta,—you Comment On The Light Way The
Government caper about. Sixty thousand new teachers wanted next year—and you ask what provision is made? None: on the contrary, all students are shut out of the universities......
Am Sorry That Some Of Your Readers Are Indignant About
what I said of the knowledge of Latin in Scotland. But I also said there were a few exceptions ; and I admit that Timor mortis conturbat me of Dunbar's Lament could hardly be......
Advice To Farmers
Sul,--Did Mr. Howard's schoolboy learn from his Italian prisoner how It make a basket our of the bramble Oct that is what the word rubea means)? This is a problem which has......
Vergil's Baskets
SIR, —In The Spectator of April 28th you publish a letter from a correspondent containing a quotation from Book I of Vergil's Georgics. Vergil recommends basket-making as an......
Screeds Of Latin
SIR, —It may be that John Leech (f1. 162o) would suppoit Mr. Gilchrist in the view that Scottish scholars did not get all their latinity " in Scotland ": Scotus ubique later,......
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