11 SEPTEMBER 1953, Page 18

A Classical Education SIR,—Last night in bed I was reading

the Metamorphoses of Ovid. This morning I read Mr. Peter Bishop's article on A Classical Education, I am on the point of writing you an indignant letter saying what nonsense about no one, except dons and schoolmasters, being able to read Latin as literature in the original when I suddenly remember that I am a don myself. - This draws my fire. Still I want to say that a classical education is certainly more than this, because I read Latin for pleasure and I haven't had one.—Yours