10 NOVEMBER 1961, Page 14

FISCHER VERLAG

SIR,—The interesting item concerning this pioneering German publishing house in your issue of November 3 could not, of course, include more than a very few of the illustrious authors sponsored by 'Sammy' Fischer and his successors. However, your readers may perhaps be interested to know that among the writers whose collected works have appeared recently under the Fischer imprint are those of the delightful dramatist and novelist Arthur Schnitzler, whose plays and short stories are among the finest to have appeared in German-speaking countries during the past seventy years, and have been unconscionably neglected in this country.

RENE ELVIN

Tranby Croft, Rowlands Avenue, Hatch End, Middlesex