11 SEPTEMBER 1964, Page 13

ALL GOOD FUN

SIR,—We must be deeply grateful to Mr. Lee for his learned, pertinent and interesting letter. Mr. Reichardt's assertion that the cults of Cybele and Attis were cults of the mystical few must be one of the most richly comic that can ever have appeared in print It is as if one were to accuse the Beatles of being a species of Trappist monk.

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS