25 NOVEMBER 1949, Page 20

The Doryphore Dory phored

SIR,—Mr. Derek Lindsay has spoilt the effect of his letter headed "A Doryphore Complains" by a misquotation. What he calls "the opinion expressed by Ronald Firbank " is a bungled recollection of the well- known remark made by Winsome Brookes in the cathedral at Ashringford when the Bishop was showing its interior to Mrs. Shamcfoot (Vainglory, Chapter X). The correct version is: "The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain."—Yours faithfully,