Revalued Pound
Sir: Mr Tom Scott (Letters, February 10) is I think right in insisting that in evaluating Ezra Pound, or any other artist, the work is all that counts, not the deeds, and that......
A Fraud?
Sir: I too, met Gilbert Murray, not once briefly in the Reform Club, but repeatedly between 1919 and 1925 in his rooms at New College and his house, Yatscombe on Boar's Hill. In......
Brittle, Very Brittle
Sir: I was fascinated to read the Spectator's Notebook item ' Brittle, very brittle ' (February 10). The evidence advanced in suppor` of the contention that Conservative MPs are......
The Good Men
Sir, It is surprising that two at least of your readers should object so strongly to Mr Bevins's article on Mr Heath; this may not, as one commentator on the BBC remarked, have......
Sir: In Reply To Messrs Gold And Freeman (february 17),
may one of your ' despicable ' readers ask what was the cost of posting a letter in those far-off unorganised days when Mr J. R. Bevins was PMG, and whether or not the Christmas......
Irish Minority
Sir, There are two facts which we continue to ignore about Ireland at our peril. One is that the Irish Protestant minority has every right to respect, equality and civil rights......
The French Way
Sir: There is nothing like the British "stream of filth " in France (Letters, January 27) only because a repressive French society will not permit it, and jails its publishers.......
From Professor E. R. Dodds Sir: The Writer's Of '
A Spectator's Notebook ' (February 17) strangely attributes to me the suggestion that Gilbert Murray's feats of " thought-reading ' were due to unconscious auditory hyperaes......
From Professor Lloyd-jones Sir: A Few Years Ago, If Gilbert
Murray had been called a fraud in the editorial columns of The Spectator, I should have had something to say about it. But now I find it quite unnecessary to comment. Doubtless......
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