21 MAY 1988, Page 28

Flight of fancy

Sir: If Antony Lambton insists on writing dreary reviews of novels (Books, 30 April), he might at least bother to get his own facts right. Simone Martini's painting in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Siena is of the Beato Agostino Novello, not Saint Augustine.

David Ekserdjian

Corpus Christi College, Oxford