30 JULY 1932, Page 14

THE OLD BAILEY AND THE PRESS [To the Editor of

the SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—What a pity you are so " superior." I am sure you lose a great deal of what might be useful influence by your " superiority." Are Yo-Yo, Golders Green, ice creams, and popular Press really necessarily evil? And accounts in popular " descriptive writing " of Old Bailey trials. Are they worse than the books of Marjoribanks on Carson and Marshall Hall, which are advertised in your pages ? And is not your own article on " The Old Bailey and the Press " a fair example of popular descriptive writing, as distinct from