19 JULY 1957, page 32

Sir,—what Could Be More Ironic Than The J U Xtr Position Of

David Watt's empty theatrical column last week and the fulsome self-congratulation with which Sir Stephen King-Hall records his own magnificen t contribution to the English......

Forrest Reid

SIR,—What odd company Mr. Bayley makes Forrest Reid keep! The remark would scarcely be worth making were it not that the impression of Reid which Mr. Bayley conveys is very much......

Ballet

SIR,—What other word than 'obliteration' applies when the junior Sadler's Wells Ballet ceases to be administered by the Sadler's Wells Trust and comes under the management of......

Puffs Direct Sir,—i Strongly Support Mr. John Bayley's...

the habit certain publishers have adopted of issuing their books with a barrage of puffs obtained before publication by personal approach. It might be claimed that such puffs,......

The Kleins Of D'arblay Street Sin,—the 'poky Little Art...

which Mr. Bernard Levin referred to—Gallery One, in D'Arblay Street— is conducted by an admirable lyric poet, Mr. Victor Musgrave, and by his wife, Miss Ida Kar, the chosen......

Thou Art Pierpoint

SIR,—II is a pity that the Spectator did not get some- body with more knowledge and understanding of Wyndham Lewis to review Mr. Wagner's book. A hostile opinion is one thing,......

The Gyres

SIR,—May I, as the person responsible for the Sunday Times footnote to 'The Gyres,' answer Pharos? Richard Ellmann in The Identity of Yeats, p. 154, says that Old Rocky Face 'is......