Still Going Strong
From Dr Anthony Starr Sir: In your issue of May 13, Christopher Hudson, reviewing The Underground Dictionary, refers to it as a modest work of lexicography that would have Eric......
Hudson Referred To A Work "that Sir: Your Reviewer...
would have Eric Partridge turning in his grave" (May 13). I would reassure Mr Hudson and your readers that Eric Partridge is alive and compiling for Routledge The Dictionary of......
Waugh Bash
Sir: Your reviewer, Mr Auberon Waugh (May 13) writing with some condescension and great learning on The Ballroom of Romance by William Trevor, carefully explains to men of......
Sir: Lines To Mr A. Waugh On Giving Credit Where
Credit is Due (Reviewing William Trevor's short stories) O fiction reviewer not everyone loves, Why credit F. Cornford to Lear? Or had you a touch of the Fredegond Shoves? O......
Sir: 0 Fat White Critic, To None Of Us Dear,
Insisting on giving that couplet to Lear — You're missing so much and so much. 'Twas Cornford who wrote it (You slightly misquote it). Alas! That you're so out of touch! Iris......
Sir: In The Penultimate Paragraph For Lear As The Author
of "Why do you walk through the field in gloves" read Frances C. Cornford in her poem To a fat lady seen from the train.' This is an old favourite of mine. My congratulations on......
Humphrey Bash
Sir: — How is it that you can retain the services of Auberon Waugh as a reviewer of books yet entrust Humphry Berkeley's unedifying account of his political abdication to the......
Abortion Poser
From Professor Glanville Williams Sir: — John Rowan Wilson says (May 13) that "abortion on demand" (a somewhat misleading expression for abortion by arrangement) is not possible......
Councillor And Traffic
Sir: — A working party of Labour Councillors, by a narrow majority and not fully supported by their officers, recently decided to take the retrogressive step of rescinding the......
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