12 AUGUST 1955, page 14

Letters To The Editor

Years the Crossword Ate R. Parsons Eric Swainson The Riddle of the Sands W. P. Brooke-Smith G. M. Knocker Little Dorrit John Wain Motor Accident Insurance C. C. Miller The......

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Sin,—during My Thirties Childhood The Song, 'ain't It...

be bloomin' well dead?' was associated, for my brothers and me at least, with another, the harrowing tale of 'The Nancy Lee'—`The ship that got shipwrecked at sea.' To quote Mr.......

Little Dorrit Sir,—mr. W. W. Robson, In Claiming To Have

read Mr. Trilling's The Opposing Self more carefully than I have, is no doubt right. But he has failed to learn the essential lesson that it has to teach. I took Mr. Trilling up......

Sir,—i Feel I Must Say Something In Support Of Erskine

Childers's The Riddle of the Sands, reviewed by Ian Fleming (August 5). I suppose I must have read the book about thirty times in as many years and it never loses its......

The Riddle Of The Sands

SIR,—Isn't it a fact that, apart from the melo- dramatic Dollmann and his daughter, The Riddle of the Sands is absolutely true in its account not only of a small yacht's cruise......