31 DECEMBER 1954, page 14

Changing Taste

Sta,—Mr. Joh& Betjeman describes Staunto0 Harold as 'one of the most gracious building , in England.' The Hon. John Byng, ridinS about the country during the last twentl years......

Contemporary Arts

THE Christmas season usually brings with it a surfeit of shows, and dramatic critics already sinking under the effects of too much food and drink find that a mental indigestion......

Palindromedary

SIR,-1 can beat the palindrome that Mr Betjeman quoted in your issue of Novenv ber 12, by a Latin one that, some fifty yearl ago, I learnt from E. F. Johns, headmastet of Winton......

Traffic And Design

SIR, —May . I add a tardy comment to the discussion which followed the article of Mr. Gordon Wilkins in your October 22 issue ? Since your publication reaches these farthest......

Welfare Children

SIR,—After listening to Miss Kendon's gentle sermon on the invertebrata of the New Estate, your readers must have been astonished to find, on dispersing, that Mr. Peter Green,......