• Echo de Paris
Sir: I can't imagine what you or your readers 'make of the abusive letters Lord and Lady Strabolgi and Mr Francis King keep sending you (Letters, 5 and 19 January) about my highly com- plimentary review of books on Anatole France and Count Robert de Montesquiou (29 December). I had hoped that Mr King would take defeat like a man and pay his £5 to charity and that the Strabolgis would simply pipe down, since the matter doesn't concern them. The important point is Mr King's £5, which I expected to see by now with the National Institute for the Blind. If he won't, after all, part with it, then I beg him, for his own good, at least to invest the money in a larger dictionary than the Concise Oxford. I have heard the two-volume Harrap's widely-commended.
Rayner Heppenstall 14c Ladbroke Terrace, London WI I PS: I had another look for the 'sensible' whose existence Mr King denies. It occurs on page 80, where 'impressionable' would have done very nicely.
This correspondence is now closed.—Editor,
SPECTATOR.
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