17 JUNE 1960, page 17

Sir,—those Of Us Who Are Familiar With The Evergreen Review

will be aware how heavy is the bile Mr. Jacobson mentions at the beginning of his notice. Sidewalk, the new Scottish quarterly, which he dismisses in three lines, is clearly in......

Rally Driving

S1R,—May 1, as a navigator in many rallies and the organiser of not a few, usher in some amend- ments to the round condemnation, by your motoring correspondent Mr. Gavin Lyall,......

The Christian Line Sir,—i Think Your Contributor Mrs....

rather less than justice to the Church of England Newspaper in her article of last week (though when I read the dear lady's comments on other Anglican periodicals I think we......

Discontented Cows

SIR,—Regarding the article by Jack Donaldson, surely this Al should be soft-pedalled. Apart from any eventual evolutionary effects that the by-passing of the sexual act may......

Rough Boys And Smooth Sir,—who'd Be A Children's Author?

Because I write about the type of boys 'who go in for fighting and horse-play,' Miss Rosemary Thomp- son calls my Jim Starling's Holiday 'an unpleasant book. She seems to have......

Little Magazines

SIR,—In his review of a dozen current literary maga- zines Mr. Dan Jacobson was moved to devote more than a column to the discussion of an article pub- lished in X.......

'treasure Island'

SIR,—Mr. Golding may be interested in another numerical slip of Stevenson's. In Chapter 21 he writes that seven or eight men supported the assault on the block-house by covering......

The Schizoid State

SIR,—If one believes as Mr. Roland Vincent Smith does, that the situation in South Africa is best described as a struggle for power between black and white, then my article 'The......

Sir,—surely Mr. Dan Jacobson, In Making A Very Timely...

of certain esoteric tendencies in recent little magazine writing, has gone a bit too far in suggesting that politics, traffic problems and such are the only 'real' pressures?......

Homosexual Prosecutions

SIR,—Mr. Archdale is more than muddleheaded—he is perverse. Two wrongs do not make a right; and I cannot for the life of me see how the case for treating homosexuals justly is......