23 JANUARY 1971, page 26

Just Price

Sir : The SPECTATOR is fi lled with so much trendy nonsense these days that one could easily miss the important things. One such, of great importance in an apparently......

Lodge Landed

Sir: To return from a sixteen-day voyage in a Russian liner and find oneself so low down on Skinflint's New Year Honours List is dis- appointing and a bit ungenerous on his......

Unsporting

Sir: 1 am glad that Clive Gammon ('Sporting Life', 2 January) failed to catch any fish if he leaves a 'trail of empty McEwan's Export cans bobbing on the Atlantic'. F G.......

Dickensian Xmas

Sir : I suppose I am not the only one among your foreign subscribers to have felt uncomfortable about the new tone of the SPECTATOR nor to have been shocked on read- ing......

Modern Pianos

Sir: All enthusiasts for early nine- teenth and late eighteenth century piands must be grateful to Charles Janson for his letter (9 January) about the performance of Beethoven......

Sir: I Have Some Sympathy For The Indignation Which...

appears ('City Diary', 9 January) to share with many employers at the cost of finding and employing secretaries. However, his answer to the problem—'no less than a ban on......

Agencies Answer

Sir : May I beg space of you to answer two criticisms of secretarial agencies made by Skinflint (9 January). Before accepting his suggestion that the agency he mentioned was......