11 NOVEMBER 1955, Page 18

SIR,—I hesitate to criticise one who is an epoch-making novelist,

a brilliant poet. 0, modern-minded lecturer and critic, but I foe' that Mr. Amis has been a bit too generous to Ker. I used to attend Ker's lectures and Y185 simple enough to find them interesting. I eve° took notes and sometimes asked a question. I now know that as Ker was a scholar and born too soon to see the Eliot light, his lectures can't have been any good. When I am dazzled by the 'verbal dexterity' of Mr. Amis and his set I still turn sometimes to Ker's 'chitchat. ' enjoy it in my senile nostalgia, but isn't Mr. Amis nodding a bit when he finds two penetrat- ing remarks sticking out of an 'incoherent account'?

I notice Mr. Amis's playful term. for Ker. May I ask what they call him in Swansea?*