19 JANUARY 1974, page 5

Museum Charges

Sir: Mr S. John Peskett (Letters' January 12) rightly takes the Govern' merit to task over its doctrinaire P° 116 1 ornfnoetexcludingchilcdhraerngeftsom natio museum admission......

What Price Glory?

,SIr: "It is said of Macaulay, idolator of uante, that his oratory represents the last sunset g lories of the Au g ustan Style, althou g h whether he was q uite as bad as that......

The Oxford Union

Sir: With reference to the article by C,hristine Pemberton in your edition of anuary 5, I would point out two Inaccuracies: Disraeli was never a member of the Oxford Union, and......

Christmas Carroll

° it: Mr Gammon was presumably illServed (January 5) by the printer inthe r atter of C. L. Dod g son's surname. His anslation from Oxford to Cambrid g e can by no means be so......

Scientology

One can hardly say that Roy t ei arns g ave a flatterin g account of entolo g y in his review of December t .29 but it is nevertheless stran g e to see hat Or g anisation......

Watched And Watcher

Sir The tirade by Beverley Nichols on the workers' (January 5) reminds me of the riposte g iven by Oscar Wilde when accused by the Warden of his colle g e of loiterin g ,......

Vietnam Refoliation

Sir: It is not true to say, as Mr Bernard Dixon does in his article on the effects of defoliants and weedkillers used on a massive scale (January 5) that the land of South......

Religious Ireland

Sir: Mr Desmond Shaw's remarks (Letters, January 5), about the 'tyranny' exercised by the 'Roman church' over its Irish members seems to betray a profound lack of knowled g e of......

Film Fun

Sir: I am most distressed to have upset Clive Gammon by sayin g that I nearly fell out of my seat lau g hin g at parts of Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? I'll make a......