5 AUGUST 1943, page 14

Sir,—if The Admirable Article By Canon Robins In Your Last

issue errs at all it is in the direction of understatement. There seems to be a wave of self-indulgence and immorality attacking, most particularly, girls from thirteen upwards......

The Public Schools Problem

SIR, —At the end of the interesting article in The Spectator of July 23rd I read " A solution of the problem of the great public schools has still to be found." What, I should......

War-time Morals

SIR, —Canon Robins in his survey of war-time morals has only touched upon the main subject which is exercising the mind of the Church today, i.e., sexual morality. He rightly......

Country Life

AN early harvest has one advantage of which, as far as I know, nothing has been said: birds, especially sparrows, have not quite reached that definite period in seasonable......

Russian Books

SIR, —In your issue of July 3oth Mr. Hamilton Kerr mentions that " No Russian reference library exists in this country." If exclusively Russian is meant this is no doubt true,......