Books Wanted

LADY CLARKE OF TILLYPRONIE'S COOKERS' BOOK; almost anything by or about John Oliver Hobbes. Recording of Constant Lambed s ballet suite The Prospect Before Us. Write Spectator Box No. 783. TROUBLED LOYALTY: a biography of Adam Von Trott by Christopher Sykes, Collins 1968. Write Spectator Box No. 784. A HANDBOOK OF THE CORNISH LANGUAGE chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature, by Henry Jenner, pub. D. Nutt 1904. S. Diamond. 36 Barton Hill Road, Torquay, Devon.

CHIEN TUNG: Chinese Fortune Slicks wanted information and book edition to H. Lloyd, The Cottage, Sound Lane, Ravensmoor, Nanhvich, Cheshire. Tel. 0270 826517.

TRADGEDY AND HOPE by Dr. Carroi Quigley, P.R. Hubbard,' Lambley Rectory, Nottingham. Tel. Burton Joyce 3531. THE DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD AND TERMINATION DICTIONARY edited by F.G. Du!ley, published by Cassell. David Ealey, 6 Marine Avenue, ,Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. THE WOMAN WHO DID by Grant Allen; 'Reconstruction' by Macmillan; 'Wigs Across The Green' by Nancy Mitford; 'Modern Love' by Merideth. 60 Victoria Road. Northampton. HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN SUSSEX by E.V. Lucas and 'Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwall' by Arthur H. Norway. P. Collenetter, Macmillan, Little Essex St. London WC2. NEED FOR ROOTS and Letters by Simone Well. M. Holland, 87 Wiley Road, Oxford.

BAEDEKER'S GUIDES In good condition. State country and year. Write Spectator Box No. 786.

ORGANIC GARDENING AND FARMING books wanted far our overseas libraries. 'Fertility Pastures' and 'Herdsmanship'. Newman Turner, 'Waste Products of Agriculture' Howard, 'Diagnosis of mineral deficiencies by visual symptoms` Wallace and others. offers to H.E.D.R.A. Convent Lane, Booking, Braintree, Essex.

AFRICA. Single volumes, collections, libraries purchased. Any respect. Old or modern. Please write, Evelyn Slaughter, 81, Port Street, Evesham, VVorcs, MISSION COMPLETED by Sir Basil Ernbsy. Write M Gill, 8a Walton Street, Tadworth, Surrey. THE FORGOTTEN SMILE by Margaret Kennedy. Hawksley, Old Vicarage, East Kennet, Marlborough, Wilts, BAKER, SIR SAMUEL, explorer: any books by or about him, also books by explorer John Petherick. Early letters of works (pre.. 19001on Nile travels. Write, Richard Hall, 21 Earls Terrace, London W8, MAJOR ROAD AHEAD edited by Rupert Croft-Cooke; Methuen 1939. Tel 01-722 2605.

NOTED BREWERIES OF THE U.K. Barrard. Any brewery histories. Rodwell, 98 Flamden, Hr. Hemel Hempstead, Herts. PHOENIX (Phoenix II B.H. Lawrence. Write Dr. W. Durrant, P.O. B01( 191, Shabani, Rhodesia.

ELSIE OXENHAM and E.M. Brent-Dyer books. Richards, Billy Bunter and Blue Mauritius, Gal, 49 Anderson Ave, Aberdeen. HAMADA: POTTER by Bernard Leach. Thames & Hudson. MacKenzie, The Manse, Newburgh, Fife.

OLD ENGLISH BAROMETERS by Bell G.H. and E.F.. Winchester, 1951 (1970); The History of the Barometer, Middleton W.E.K., Baltimore 1964; The Van Meegeren Mystery by M. Moiseiwitsch, 1964. Write Spectator Box No. 786.

UNDISCOVERED SCOTLAND by W.H. Murray. Write Spectatbr Box No. 777.

ONLY MY SISTER, Rev. G.R. Wynne, SPCK 1892; 'Grumble', Mrs T. Erskine, SPCK 1886; 'The Dim Lantern', Temple Bailey, 1920/30's; Any poems written by Anna Wickham. S. Surrey, 14, Church Lane, Southampton. 0703 557098.

J.B. YEATS LETTERS by Jack Yeats: 'On Art and Artists' by Aldous Huxley; 'The Life of Forms in Art' by Henri Focillon. G. Collett, 59 Oakley Square, London NW1. SPANISH SELTAUGHT and 'Italian Self-Taught' by Richard S. Rosenthal, Write W. Haarburger, 6, Saladin Ave, Glen Waverley 3150, Australia.

NAZARENE GOSPEL RESTORED by Graves and Podro; 'King David Flepore by Stefan Heym; Mozart Concertos KV 488 & 453 Ingrid Hilabler/Rowickl/LSO, Philips SAL 3537. Please ring 01 727 2171 or write Spectator Box No. 778.

HOROWITZ, COLH 12/300; Furhvangler XLP 30097/30104. McHardy, 34 Earls Avenue, Folkestone, NIETZSCHE AS PHILOSOPHER by Dant° (paperback or hardback). Tel. Oxford (0865) 55367. POST MORTEM by Guy Cullingford, Penguin. W. Gibson, 32 Butterfield Park, Dublin 14, HAN VAN MEEGEREN— Any English, French or Dutch work on him, especially 'Van Meegeren' by Lord Kilbracken, 1967; 'The Van Meegeren Mystery' by M. Molaeiwitsch, 1964; 'Emmaus' by Doudart de la Gree, Brune, Netherlands, 1947. Write Spectator Box No. 779, KA. KNIGHT 'Corner of Arcarit'; Oliver ONIONS, Collected Ghost Stories (1935); 'Hand of Kornelius Voyt', 'Italian Chest', 'Cockcrow' let. eds. only. A.B. Baker, Ladram, Sidcot, Winscombe, 'Somerset.

A SLOTH IN THE FAMILY by Hermann Tirler (Harvill Press). Write Spectator Box No. 780.

MOZART Piano trios. SAL 3681/82. Phi/lips. Beaux Arts Trio, Write; Skinner, Fitzhead, Taunton.

LIFE AT FONTHILL by William Beckford. (Hart Davis, 19571 Write Spectator Box No. 760.

MANSFIELD PARK, PERSUASION. Jane Austen. Dent edition Col. Illus, by Charles E. Brock. Write Adam Legg, High Brunner„ Mayfield, Sussex.

CLASSICAL TIM Operatic and instrumental purchased also operatic photos, prints, books and old programmes. J. Waters, 41 Mldholm, London NW11 6LL.

young lives and the clogging of an already overloaded judicial system), the men who rule this country are starting to say: 'Let them smoke grass.' Nine states have 'decriminalised' possession in the past four years, and many more are expected to follow. Studies indicate that the lighter penalties have not yet produced any significant increase in the number of users; and California's bill for processing pot cases has fallen from $20 million a year to less than $4 million in 1976.

By 1980, the National Organisation for Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) predicts, at least half of the states will have decriminalised the weed. And during the 'eighties, according to a NORML spokesman, the factions in this long-drawn war will be fighting over a new issue — total legalisation.

One risk of this step would be commercialisation. Already the tobacco companies are credited with secret plans to market and advertise the stuff, with all the money and know-how at their disposal. Its use would be pushed on TV and billboards, whatever experts might say about its effect on health, the family, and traffic fatalities. Unlike tobacco, marijuana is a weed that can be grown in every state of the union. Efforts to license it could bring on a nationwide wave of bootlegging. The Age of Grass could turn into yet another age of graft.