22 APRIL 1955, Page 20

A. E. HOUSMAN • 'Snt,—For all I know, Mr. Wain,

who describes himself as a literary critic,, is entitled to his opinion of Housman's poetry. I do him the charity to assume that he is not similarly qualified to write about classical scholarship. Housman kept the two as far apart as he could. Mr. Wain had better do the same.—Yours faithfully, D. R. SHACKLETON BAILEY Gonville and Calus College, Cambridge