27 MAY 1938, page 21

" Influenced " Books

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Among " influenced " books are some of the works of William Blake, Thackeray, Robert Louis Stevenson, Goethe, Kipling, George Eliot and E.......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator] Sir,—may I Correct One

small error in Dame Edith Lyttefton's interesting article entitled "Influenced Books" (Spectator, May 13th)? The mistake may have occurred through my not having made myself......

• Mrs. Cole On Marriage

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Mr. Christopher Hobhouse, reviewing my book on marriage in your issue of May 13th, talks about "rushing into print" upon "imperfect......

Post-victorian Poetry

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, —We all know that in these democratic, money-grubbing days poets are nearly as common as house-flies and just about as important, but when......