3 AUGUST 1956, page 19

'paris Album'

SIR,—Having been a book reviewer MYs for more than a quarter of a centUrY , know the difficulties and hardships of professional reviewer's life and do not to seem unduly......

Back To Methuselah

G.B.S., according to Mr. Brian Inglis, had become senile by 1929—within five years of creating St. Joan! 0 brave new world that can see in The Black Girl and In Good King......

Poets Of The Fifties

S1R,—Lovers of poetry, and of arguments about poetry, will to some extent understand Mr. Grigson's annoyance with Mr. , Hartley for not providing a detailed criticism of the......

Sir,—yes, Some People Do Care Sufficiently About Poetry...

resent with Mr. Grigson 'attitudes to the arts of consciousness and purpose' (Spectator, July 27). Are such attitudes due perhaps to the present withering of creativeness, and......

Contemporary Arts

A Second Programme? TRE BBC has again declared its desire to have a second television programme. I hope it succeeds. As the Corporation's annual report states: competition with......

'women In Antiquity'

Sla,.--Chivalry demands that I rise to defend alY most friendly reviewer, Virginia Graham, against the inconsequent attack which has been levelled at her by the reverend Canon......

The Battlefields Of Eton

am most surprised that Strix should r efer, as he does in his contribution 'The nattlefield of Eton,' to the foot inspection as foot 'almost forgotten ritual.' To the fact that......

Sia,—we Must All Be Thankful To Mr. Tom Scott For

.providing the final clue about the whys and wherefores of the Lallans verse of himself and his friends. Neo-jabberwocky! Why didn't we think of it before?—Yours faithfully, J.......