24 SEPTEMBER 1937, Page 21

CHINESE FAIRY TALES

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If the managing director of Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd., will be good enough to look at my review again he will see that I called Chinese Fairy Tales suitable for adults of all ages. And his opinion that the book is " entirely " unsuitable for children may be compared with Herr Eberhard's statement in the introduction that some of the stories were taken down just as they were related by children. I did not attribute " iniquity " to Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd., either individually or en masse, but I find their managing director unusual among publishers in that he is ungrateful for a good notice.—Yours faithfully,

WILLIAM PLOMER.