10 FEBRUARY 1973, page 28

Sir: I Shall, I Hope, Be One Of Many To

write to express their sense of outrage that you should have seen fit to print the column contributed by J. R. Bevins (February 3). Clearly you have no high regard for the......

Fellow Travellers

Sir: I have read Robert Moss's review (January 27) of David Caute's book: The Fellow Travellers. And, of course, as I have not read the work I cannot comment on it. On the other......

7 Clarence Road, Moseley, Birmingham 13

From Commander Edgar P. Young Sir: Robert Moss is unduly kind, I think, in his review of David Caute's book The Fellow Travellers (January 27). For the author, who professes to......

Nihilistic Youth

Sir: Anyone who's interested in the question of academic degeneration raised by David Holbrook's 'Nihilistic barbarism' (January 13) need look no further than your......

Sloppy English

Sir: It's a pretty cup-of-tea when one is forced to admit that somebody's pair-of-shoes is not one's kettle-of-fish. But life is comprised of such chimeras, or reasonably......

Sir: Mrs Hagan Is Quite Right Of Course In Her

castigation of the Prime Minister's misuse of " flaunt " for "flout" (Letters, February 3). for she surely cannot be allowed to get away with asking defenders of the English......

Standing Corrected

From Mrs Margaret Thompson Sir: In Christopher Booker's Christmas Quiz, question 2, may point out that Martin and Gilbert Ryle are not brothers — they are nephew an uncle, I......