1 SEPTEMBER 1961, page 18

Those Advertisements Sir,—mr. Roy Brooks Is Shrewdly...

an advertisement is read it is not an advertisement at all: it is only a waste of money. A. J. F. GILL ' 15 Upper Cavehill Road, Belfast, 15......

Sir,-1 Am Troubled By Kenneth Allsop's Contented...

last extract of The Bootleggers, of the image of the Chicago gunman as a dead-eye dick. Thus he quotes a contemporary source, Pasley, on the training of Capone killers: 'It......

Portrait Of The Week

SIR,—Perhaps you will allow me to make a small correction to Mr. Haden-Guest's reference to Monta- cute in last week's 'Portrait of the Week.' The paint- ings stolen from here......

Malcolm Lowry

Sue,—Frank Tuohy's introduction to this greatly gifted writer is as penetrating as might have been expected; but it contains some errors of fact, which should perhaps be......

Sir,—in Coming Events In Britain, Issued By The British...

Association, and elsewhere, there are innumerable advertisements urging foreign visitors to hire a car in Britain. Do they get one? While running a summer school for Finns in......

Dickens Letters

SIR,—In 1962, the 150th anniversary of the novelist's birth, will be published the first volume of the Pil- grim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens. This is intended to......

Sir, — Loyalty To The Vanished Past Prompts Me To Write To

you a few words about Mr. Hesketh Pearson's superficial book, The Pilgrim Daughters. Your reviewer, Katharine Whitehorn, considers that one of the occasions on which Mr. Pearson......

Sir, — 'the History Of Any Medical Discovery—invari -...

long as possible by the mass of the medical profession.' I am disturbed by Katharine Whitehorn's repetition of this old canard and correspondingly inclined to distrust the......