Coin Of The Realm

Sir: David J. Levy does well (19 May) I° distinguish the Tory from the Liberal elements in the make-up of the Conserva tive Party. But he should beware of going too far with......

On Reading George Eliot

Sir: Sir Cecil Parrott's assumption that no one read George Eliot before Professor Leavis 'rehabilitated' her in 1948 is parrotted nonsense, and reveals the depths into which......

Patton Precept

Sir: With respect to Mr Christopher Walker's most interesting article, 'The new Irish terrorism', those who suggest the application of stronger measures against the Provisional......

True Poetry

Sir: Mr Ernest W. Bacon's letter 'True poetry' (14 April) takes me a long way back to my early schooldays when 'free verse' was a lively issue with the jingle-rhyme brigade of a......

Complaint

Sir: John McEwen in the review of Morris Louis paintings at our gallery states 'and the stripes, imposed upon him by the critic Clement Greenberg and not his thing at all'. This......

Interpreting Hayek

Sir: In his essay of 19 May on Conservatism, David J. Levy, in contrasting freedom and order, associates Hayek exclusively with those who emphasise the former. He thereby (no......

Moslem Emotions

Sir: Dr Witton-Davies (Letters, 12 May) does not seem to have read my letter (5 May) very carefully. In no part of it did I state that Transjordan was not under British mandate......