27 APRIL 1996, page 26

Perfumed Garden

Sir: I would not normally wish to prolong correspondence over what you concede (Leader, 13 April) was a misprint. However, you have, whether intentionally or not, mis-......

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Versailles Verities

Sir: One hesitates to disagree with such an eminent historian as A.L. Rowse when he claims that Keynes 'was fatally wrong about the Treaty of Versailles' (Keynes right and......

Sight Unseen

Sir: As the screenwriter of the film Restora- tion, I was dismayed to read the aside in Caroline Moore's review of Rose Tremain's Collected Short Stories that 'the screen ver-......

Live Coverage

Sir: Matthew Parris hasn't unmasked a big lie in television — he's discovered electron- ic sub-editing (Another voice, 20 April). He and his print colleagues rely on innuendo,......

Dumb Ox's Revenge

Sir: The Reverend Andrew Linzey is right to criticise Thomas Aquinas for establishing the Catholic tradition of callousness towards animals CA Christian shield for animals', 6......

A New Recruit

Sir: On 19 April in the Commons, Gordon Brown called for an independent audit of government accounts. On 20 April Bruce Anderson (Politics) urged 'an intellectually respectable......

Kind But Not Quite Right

Sir: I think I am right in identifying myself as the person described, mistakenly, by Alan Watkins (Books, 13 April ) as `Asquith's illegitimate daughter'. May I cor- rect him......