22 MAY 1959, Page 21

TAPER SIR,—Taper should check his literary allusions. It was not

Belloc but E. C. Bentley who wrote the 'Ballade of Vain Delight' with the last line : 'What is the use of going on like thisV—Yours faithfully, 2 Audio! Square, South A udley Street, W I