4 APRIL 1992, page 30

Sir: Paul Johnson On The Probable Death Of Punch Bathes

Malcolm Muggeridge's edi- torship in a rosier glow than it desentes. M uggeridge used to boast gleefully about the success of his mission — to drive away every middle-class......

Sir: Paul Johnson Tells Us That Leech 'had A Genius

for drawing the women's fashions of the day' and that `no artist performs the same function now'. There is an artist who comments with great perspicacity and wit on the fashions......

Letters Round Two

Sir: Mr Paul Johnson (And another thing, 28 March) deplores the latter-day neglect of light verse in Punch. Over a span of 53 years, under seven editors, I contributed thousands......

Not For Sale

Sir: City & Suburban's bid for Lloyd's of London (28 March) unfortunately tends to perpetuate a misunderstanding of the nature of Lloyd's, by implying he could buy LETTERS it in......

Catholic Guilt

Sir: William Oddie's moralistic article on the misfortunes of the Converts' Aid Soci- ety (`The scandal of the converts' aid', 28 March) gives an unbalanced and one-sided......