13 JANUARY 1961, page 14

Sir,—your Comment On Indeterminate Sentences Is Welcome,...

by which you suggest a man's release should be decided—is he fitted to be let loose?—is a dangerously thorny one. As if to underline the problem, there was a report in the press......

Stains On The Carpet

SIR,—I would have thought that Dr. Esfandiary would at least know whether or not elections in his country had yet taken place. He asks: 'Were the elections not . . declared void......

Libraries And Authors' Royalties

SIR,—May I reply to Sir Alan Herbert and to Mr. Forstcr (who I note has now abandoned his guise of impartial television critic on this issue). The Library Association has......

Sir,—there Is One Distinction Between Books And...

which, surely, even that author's friend, Mr. Barry, should be able to comprehend. Motor-cars and washing-machines are mass-produced in great numbers by a compara- tively few......

Sir,—mr. Constantine Fitzgibbon Attributes To Me Strange...

Chelsea pub in November, 1942. I admire his memory and admit it is possible I was then in such a pub; I spent a week's leave from the Army with my brother and Dylan Thomas about......

Colour

SIR,—Will you at this late date allow a comment on Dr. Leach's review of Man. Race and Darwin in your issue of December 2? I am there said to have recommended that coloured......

Teething Troubles

SIR,—If dental health educationalists are to be con- vinced that their efforts are less than useful, it will not be by Monica Furlong's criticism of them, but rather because of......