10 FEBRUARY 1967, Page 15

Literature and Censorship

gave up being a schoolmaster some years ago; replying to Mr Macklin's letter (February 3) recalls old desperate efforts. Neither my oracular arrogance nor his smugness—about his self-styled 'healthy sex-life and quaint capacities for self- censorship—are relevant to the arguments I put forward in my article, which he fails to answer rationally. Perhaps I am 'a teeny-weeny bit wrong,' as he puts it; but his sort of wholly emotional out- burst does not help. One other point arises from his letter: men are not sexually inflamed by books about women, as he implies, but by women.

MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH

36 Holliers Hill, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex