Sir,—mr. Nicolson May Be Right In Saying That Few People
today can speak Latin as a living language. Old Persc boys of Dr. Rouse's time can do it well, and some of their pupils too. But their accent by no means renders their words......
Sir,—canon Ellison Finds Fault With "those Dreary Lists...
and genealogies" in the Bible. They are there because the Bible is a record of persons, not of abstractions. The liturgical use of the Matthaean genealogy as the Gospel in a......
Spoken Latin
Stn,—I was keenly interested in Mr. Harold Nicolson's remarks on Latin as an international mediaeval language in last week's Marginal Comment. I often discussed this matter with......
Letters To The Editor
DOCTORS AND THE STATE Sta,—The issue of arbitration that Dr. Margarct Jackson' mentions in her article, The Doctors' Real Work, is more than the sufficiently knotty one of the......
Headmasters
Sta,—The problem of education may be the problem of the teacher, but it is surely more essentially the problem of the headmaster. It hardly seems to be generally realised that......
Spectator
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Translating The Bible
was very interested by the letters of Canon Ellison and Sir Howard Kelly on the subject of Monsignor Ronald Knox's version of the Bible. While I agree with many of the things......
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