5 AUGUST 1955, page 15

The Doomed Island Sta,—anyone Who Defends The Decencies...

life in the Highlands and islands of Scotland is accustomed to being dismissed as a woolly-minded romantic. I am therefore prepared for this and similar accusations when I call......

Pen New Poems Sir,—for The Past Four Years Pen Antholo-

gies of new verse have appeared under the imprint of Messrs. Michael Joseph, and you have been kind enough to allow me to invite your readers to submit poems for considera- tion......

Letters To The Editor

The Financial Outlook P. R. Lane Hogarth Peter Quennell The Doomed Island Moray McLaren Little Dorrit PK W. Robson PEN New Poems David Carver THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK SIR,—It is......

Little Dorrit

SIR,—Mr. John Wain, reviewing Mr. Lionel Trilling's The Opposing Self (July 29), criti- cises 'adversely' Mr. Trilling's essay on Little Dorrit. He complains that though Mr.......

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Hogarth Sir,—in His Kindly And Painstaking Review Of My...

of William Hogarth (July 22), Mr. Angus Wilson—among other- pertinent criticisms about which it would ill become me to dispute with him—remarks that, although 1 cite the Burney......