12 NOVEMBER 1937, Page 23

" BY ORDER OF THE SHAH "

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR —My attention his been called to the review of a book, By Order of the Shah, contained in your issue of October rsth, _ 1937. This review contains a gratuitous and perfectly unjusti- fied association of my name with the peregrinations of the authors of a book of which your review is not laudatory.

I am unaware that I have ever made the acquaintance of either of the authors, I had not heard of the book before your review was brought to my notice, and I am not • the " Dis- tinguished personage " of your reviewer's baseless surmise. I must ask you to publish this disclaimer in your next issue.—

Britannic' HOus- Finsimiy dircus, London, E.G. 2.