27 JANUARY 1961, page 12

Rossetti

OSWALD DOUGHTY Kelmscott. 132 Camp Ground Road, Newlands, Cape, South Africa......

The Memoirs Of Casanova

SIR,- -In his review of the final volumes of the re- issue of Arthur Machen's translation of Casanova's memoirs, Mr. Simon Raven writes: . • while the texts of the Memoirs pose......

Whitewash?

SIR,—If Mr. Home, whose tone has grown more civil, and Mr. Kennedy, still the fully-fledged Yahoo, will look at my first letter, they will see the points they make (but what......

Libraries And Authors' Royalties Sir,—how Strange That...

has attacked Mr. Barry for being unable to recognise the dif- ference between a book and a washing-machine, should fail to distinguish between public libraries and public......

Sir,—i Have Never Been In Noumda Which Mr. Peter Michaels

describes as 'a graceless industrial township which, but for its exquisite climate and situation, might be mistaken for a displaced Clermont-Ferranc This odd remark suggests......

Sir,--mr. Douglas Home Says That The Germans Under Hitler...

only three courses open to them and that there was no fourth—to co-operate, to oppose (and take the consequences) or to compro- mise. There was in fact a fourth course, the one......

Teething Troubles

Sta,—Goodness, Professor Slack is in a state. Teeth, must I repeat again. arc really not worth so much passion and high moral purpose, and the highly emotional letters of the......

Sta.-no One On Our Side Disputes That Authors And Publishers

must be properly paid. Leaving aside issues of principle, what are the alternative courses and their practical consequences? First course. Take £2 million plus from the......