23 MAY 1958, page 20

Sir,—mr. Blackham, When He Says That This Country Because Of

the 'Suez venture' is not entitled to criticise other countries, employs the very argument used by the pro-Nazis in the Thirties. Nevertheless, many of us would agree with him......

`my Books Of The Year'

S1R,—Mr. Cicero T. Ritchie really ought to brush up on his distinguished namesake. The old Republi - can (no elephant) may have been vain enough to fancy himself a second......

Sir,—in Discussing The Now Historic Levin-ritchie Feud...

overlook the salient fact: that this book was published, and in three English-speaking countries at that. When I think of the torrential flood of titles un- leashed each year by......

War Writers

SIR, On behalf of Dr. H. W. Bahr (Editor of the Universitas, Tubingen) I am collecting English material for his sequel to his book, Kriegs•briefe gefalletter deutscher......

The Marlowe Society's Shakespeare

SLR,—Mr. Karl Miller objects to the Marlowe Society's use of 'the Dover Wilson edition, with its learned meddlings.' There are many readings in the New Shakespeare text which......

Privileged Classes

SIR,—You lead off in your article 'Privileged Classes' with the assertion that the Observer and the Man- chester Guardian seem to have misunderstood the Strauss privilege case.......

Polio

SIR,—I feel impelled to thank you for giving pub - licity to Pharos's common-sense notes on the polio panic which has been so painstakingly inoculated into the minds of the......