3 MARCH 1990, Page 32

Lit. crit.

Sir: I am another ardent reader of The Spectator who, like David Astor and Steven Rawson (Letters, 13 January), would be relieved if Wallace Arnold might take his unedifying column elsewhere. Indeed I have got to the stage where I do not read `Afore Ye Go'.

I have never met Mr Arnold but the sketch of him about his distasteful articles seems to me that of a person meriting a kick up the backside.

Brian Gotta

1694 St Francis Wood, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada