22 JANUARY 1921, Page 14

" JOSEF HOLBROOKE AND HIS WORK." [To THE EDITOR OF

THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sza,—At the risk of being a fearful bore I must again con- tradict my revered biographer. I have always been a firm lover of J. S. Bach and Shakespeare. Surely private thoughts at times of youthful depression should not be quoted in a book of analysis. I believe I have hated much in my time, but -I happily "switch off " and resume the normal. Disconcerting alike to biographers and "critics"! After all I am only the subject of the book.—I am, Sir, &c., JOSEF HOLBROOKE.