12 MARCH 1965, Page 16

Sta,—In your issue of February 26 Mr. Simon Raven reviewed

Professor J. W. Egerer's Biblio- graphy of Robert Burns in a parenthesis of six words (excluding the author's name and title of book). For you to have allowed this considerable work of scholarship, which occupied many years in its compiling and editing, to be dismissed in such a perfunctory fashion seems quite irresponsible in the editor of a paper of the authority and standing of the Spectator.