7 APRIL 1961, Page 17

BOOKS FOR OVERSEAS READERS SIR,—Mr. Gordon Grimley and others, representa-

tives of 'fairly well-known bookshops,' have taken you to task because The Spectator Ltd. offer to obtain books for overseas readers.

As booksellers their case would have been consider- ably strengthened if the names of firms listed did not include one multiple store and another which delights, apparently, in selling, within the bookshop premises, such goods as gramophone records. philatelic goods, works of art and other miscellaneous departmental store products.—Yours faithfully,