2 JUNE 1967, Page 28

Sit: I would like to congratulate Mr Martin Seymour-Smith on

his scholarly and erudite review of Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without.

When a frog tries to assume the stature of a bullock the result is pathetic; but when three tad- poles try to destroy a herd of fifty hefty bullocks the end of their attempt is not pathetic but utterly ridiculous.

Robert Hartman Pedor's Close, Smithwood Common, Cranleigh, Surrey