As a former PRO to the City of Westminster I
find this all very depressing. Still, those of us who owe an ancient loyalty to Middlesex can take some comfort in the fact that the battle to preserve a natural society has reached our own doorstep, since not content with the Rape of Rutland, our planners are now busy with the Murder of Middlesex. We shall see I —Yours faithfully,
ROGER WI MBUSH
Teddington, Middlesex BORN UNDER SATURN
SIR,—Mr. Forster is right to deplore the nature of Mr. Grigson's savaging of Mr. Priestley's new thriller. It is also right to be surprised at the nor- mally amiable Mr. Forster's own ill-natured treat- ment recently of Mr. Cyril Connolly ('Obviously he cannot be a complete bore—in fact, somebody assured me the other day that he is definitely not a complete bore').
One notes that in all but one case mauler and mauled were themselves critics. The non-critic tempted to join in the romp might be so ill-disposed as to imagine Mr. Grigson to be a poet manque, and Mr. Forster a journalist ill-advisedly setting up for a wit.—Yours faithfully,
STANLEY BARON
Bower House, Boundstotze, Farnham, Surrey THE KIROV BALLET
SIR,—May I congratulate your ballet critic, Clive Barnes, on his notices of the Kirov Ballet produc- tions at Covent Garden?
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