29 DECEMBER 1973, Page 5

School ban

Sir: I want to protest that just because Schoolboy Rising by Nigel Foxell, is a novel about Aldenham, the Head master has banned it from School Library. Though published by a perfectly respectable publisher (Dobson) and though the criticisms of the school, if severe, are just, we are not allowed to read it — except by coming up to London to buy it, which is a waste of time and money, and ensures that more boys read it surreptitiously than would have done openly.

An Aldenham School Sixth Former Aldenham School, Elstree, Herts.