27 DECEMBER 1957, Page 11

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

SIR,—Six Fellows of St. John's College really ought to be more careful. The titles and sub-titles of Voltaire's Philosophical Talcs are, rightly or wrongly, rather more widely known than the currency used in Costa Rica and it was therefore unwise to identify `la Destine& (i.e., Zadig) with Candide, of which the correct sub-title was and is 'l'Optimisme.'—Yours faithfully,

P. RICKARD Emmanuel College, Cambridge