13 FEBRUARY 1959, page 23

'lolita'

SIR,—it is a novel idea and one that does not stand up to investigation that the law officers who are 'charged with the defence of public decency should let themselves be guided......

'no Fixed Abode'

S1R,—Regarding your television critic's notice pub- lished in the Spectator last week, I, too, think Henry Kaplan is a superb director—one of the very few capable of achieving......

Sir,—in All The Correspondence One Reads In The Press About

obscene publications it seems to me that every- one is saying the same thing without coming to any conclusion. Lolita, obviously, is disgusting in the sense that it portrays one......

Malaise In India David Pocock 'lolita' Douglas Woodall',...

Rev. Herbert R. Barton Litter C. C. Miller `No Fixed Abode' James Ormerod The Rumbotham Saga John Marlin The Middle East • Daphne Slee 'Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat' L. S.......

Sta,—you Would Doubtless Agree That Literary Excel- Lence...

a quality which can be possessed by a book which possesses nothing else. In the case of a work of fiction the quality is used in the service of telling an imagined story. The......

The Rumbotham Saga Sir.—so Kenneth Allsop Has Chosen To...

again on the subject of jazz! Again he succeeds in wedging both his 'pedal extremities' (as the late Fats Waller would have said) very firmly in his articulate mouth. Would that......

Litter

SIR,—After reading Mr. Wilde's letter to you in your last issue, I am forced to the conclusion that he simply does not know what the litter scourge amounts to. To talk of litter......