3 NOVEMBER 1961, page 13

Ronald Knox's New Testament

is helpful and honest of a critic to announce her predilections and if Miss Stevie Smith finds 'entirely enjoyable' Rose Macaulay's thrusts against Rome, that is her business.......

Immig Ration Stn,—why Do Some People (postscript,'...

on distorting the issues involved in immigra- tion? Obviously, the coloured immigrants arc fit to live with us—in fact, it might well be asked if all of us are fit to live with......

Sir, — Mr. Alan Brien Is Entitled To His Own Reasons For

reading science fiction. But he should not imagine that they account, or fully account, for the motives of any other readers—particularly when he is review- ing a collection......

Kariba

SIR.—Sir Malcolm Barrow, in replying to my comments on Kariba, accuses me and 'political com- mentators' like me, of 'arrogantly disregarding the expert opinions of......

Intrusion

SIR,—Mr. Llew Gardner has some pretty odd ideas of the function of the press, although 'pretty' sounds the wrong word. Did it not occur to him or his Editor that publication of......

The Lost Tribes Of Reading

SIR,—I am sure that all my neighbours will join me in thanking Monica Furlong for 'The Lost Tribes of Reading' and the local reader of the Spectator who brought the Rev. G. H.......

James Stephens

SIR,—1 intend to publish a critical biography of the late Irish poet, James Stephens, and would he grate- ful if any of your readers who have any information about his origin,......

The Tva

Sin,--1 am puzzled by a statement by Miss Sarah Gainham in last week's Spectator. When and who proposed to sell the Tennessee Valley Authority to private shareholders? It......