15 MAY 1964, page 13

Sir.—leslie Adrian's Column, Irritatingly Omniscient...

I have often felt, done Egon Ronay's Guide to London Pubs as being 'much a great deal of good in a number of different fields. I must take exception, however, to its reference......

Sia,—may I Refer To Leslie Adrian's Enjoyable And...

in your last issue? Our Guide to Restaurants and Hotels (which in- cidentally is in its sixth year, not its third) strongly disagrees with what the article alleges to be the......

Was Surprised, And Not A Little Alarmed, To Read Alan

Brien's dangerous advocacy of Natural Fatherhood in your columns last week. While medical advances in paternity care have, it IS true, emerged in recent years, any experienced......

Catholics And Birth Control

SIR, —Mr. Bruce Cooper's interesting article was presumably in print last week before Archbishop Heenan's statement. The headlines in the various papers all describe—truly......

Progressing Backwards Progressing Backwards

SIR,—We look to the Spectator for enlightenment and might have hoped for dispassionate analysis of the difficult question of the proposed House of Commons extension. All we get......

Reforming The Law

SIR,—To support his contention that 1 have not made out a case for modernising the law Mr. Mursell airily ignores the list of facts I recited and dismisses Lord Gardiner's......

Long Sentences "

Sm,—Replying briefly to the critics of my letter giving concrete objections to the savage sentences imposed in the train robbery case: 1 did not in- clude Mr. Lloyd Morgan's......

Old Wines

SIR,-1 hate to carp, particularly when the writer in question is Leslie Adrian, whose column I read with great pleasure and profit. But it is said in your issue of May 1: 'Under......