16 APRIL 1942, Page 4

English culture is being administered to Greece through r surprising

agencies. I take this paragraph from an unofficial B Council survey of English reading in South Eastern Europe: A generally unrealised fact is that in Greece the four most widely read English writers of fiction are Oscar Edgar Wallace, Elinor Glyn and Florence Barclay. available in cheap English and cheaper Greek and Fr editions, they permeate to every home where books are and where, in more cases than not (particularly the last they represent between them not only English literature, to a large extent, England.

There'll always be an England, but not necessarily the Eng of The Four lust Men and Five Nights, The Picture of Dorian and The Rosary. I trust the descendants of Aeschylus Thucydides may realise that this is not the only England even!