18 OCTOBER 1963, page 16

Lawyers' Loot Sir,—the Marriage Which Ought To Have Been...

between Mr. S. G. Carter, of Harrow, and the Goddess of Truth, has clearly not yet taken place. Mr. Carter's latest effort shows that the divergence of the happy pair gets......

Lincoln Said It Sir,—as A Labour Man I Am Always

ready to listen to advice; but I feel the late Lord Keynes would have had something to say to your correspondent who so unthinkingly quotes Abraham Lincoln for my apparent......

Lady Geraldine's Diary

SIR, — In his review of The Royal George (October I I) Angus Macintyre refers to the unearthing of the diary of Lady Geraldine Somerset. In point of fact the unearthing process......

Shakespearean Valentines Sir,—in His Interesting Review...

Shakespeare, Mr. Philip Brock bank, having hesitated whether he should compare Dr. Rowse and myself to 'pilot fish,' monsters of the deep' or purveyors of 'costly and pretty......

Better By Bus Sir,—the London Transport Board Has Not Done

itself justice in the way of publicising its recent and 'highly successful measures to cope with traffic con- gestion and overcrowding on the buses. In particular I am referring......

Sir,—in A Book Review (spectator, October 11), Mr. Philip...

suggests the reprinting, for the 1964 Shakespeare quatercentenary, of Edgar I. Fripp's 'fine work.' This undertaking is already in hand. We shall reissue Fripp's Shakespeare:......

Non-loo Sir,—whatever He May Think A Bidet Is Or Is

not, may 1 point out to Leslie Adrian that when describing what he (she?) evidently means as a water-closet, the word to use is water-closet and not lavatory. This will leave......

Contact

SIR,—The fortnightly anti-apartheid newspaper Contact, founded in 1958 by Patrick Duncan, is able to publish at the most two more issues before closing, if sufficient money is......