31 MARCH 1961, Page 14

BOOKS FOR OVERSEAS READERS

SIR,—Booksellers will have been intrigued—if that is the word—by the re-appearance of an advertise- ment in your last issue wherein The Spectator Ltd. offer to obtain books for overseas readers 'who cannot otherwise obtain them.'

It would be pleasing if you would permit the undersigned the courtesy of remarking that their fairly well-known bookshops, representative of many, have not yet closed and continue with con- siderable efficiency and experience to supply books daily to scores of thousands of customers through- out the civilised world.—Yours faithfully, John & Edward Burn pus Ltd., 6 Baker Street, WI 119-125 Charing Cross Road, WC2 461 Oxford Street, WI Harrods Ltd., Knightsbridge, SW I Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, WI

GORDON GRI KILEY CHRISTINA FOYLE CLAUDE GILL CADNESS PAGE 3011N MOIRE ,,