Pillow Book
Sir: Your statement (17 November) that The Pillow Book of Sd Shonagon is almost unknown in the West would not bear investigation. Arthur, Waley's brilliant translation,......
Drinking And Driving
Sir: 1 have no car, but if I had one and wanted to drink, I would leave it at home and use a hire ser- vice. Mr Vinson (Letters, 17 November) is using statis- tics as a......
Season's Greetings
Sir: May we, once again, invite your readers to send a Christmas or New year greeting to some of the many South Africans who are under house arrest, banned or in banishment......
Mr Wilson And The Lords
Sir: Mr Auberon Waugh says (3 November) 'No- body has yet explained why the hereditary prin- ciple . . . is still sacrosanct when applied to the monarchy.' The fact seems to be,......
Aubrey's Brief Life
Sir: Mr Auberon Waugh reveals, in his otherwise kind review of Stanley Weintraub's Beardsley (27 1 October), a woeful ignorance of publishing economics. A selling price of 35s......
The Curse Of Gimmickry Sir: I Try Very Hard To
keep up with current affairs in Great Britain, which is why I have your paper airmailed to me every week. But haven't you let me down in your 10 November issue when, under......
Tom Paine
Sir: With all respect to Mr Brunel of the Thomas Paine Society (Letters, 10 November) the evidence that Paine drank, at least in his later years when disenchanted with the......
The Prisoners Of St Kitts
LETTERS From Derek E. F. Baldock, Mrs M. Daniels, David Morris, S. C. Butler, Frank MacDermot, M. Hepper, Sir Stanley Unwin, C. M. Goulden, S. Abdul. Sir: I refer to Mr James......
Pouring Oil On Placid Waters
Sir: Miss Enid Lakeman (20 October) may like to be reminded of a suggestion made a good many years ago by (I think) Dr W. R. Matthews and (I think) in your columns which would......
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