6 OCTOBER 1961, page 17

1 , 1t - ---- After Reading Dr. Comfort's Letter About C...

can think, as he can, of Point or two that have not been sufficiently ' t ressed. It would be very helpful if he would taswer these three related questions: (a) Is it true that......

Edible Fungi

SIR,—In a recent 'Consuming Interest' article, Leslie Adrian pointed out that there is no adequate handbook available for identifying British mush- rooms and toadstools and for......

Sir,—some Of Your Readers, Misled By The Nearby Reference To

Rhodes, may conclude that the last word of Raymond Postgate's article last week- 'Chaizete'—is a Greek valediction. We would all have appreciated his ironic last word on the......

Sir,—your Dramatic Critic, Mr. Bamber Gascoigne, Is, I...

that I did not use in this play Allison Peers's translation of St. Teresa's famous hymn about the fleas. It so happened that one of the nuns at Stanbrooke Abbey had made a new......

Nu

Donnelly jests. We are in earnest. We re not only prepared to demonstrate in the Red quare, distributing Lord Russell's statements, 11 ° 11 8 1 1 in full, and not in Mr.......

'daily Telegraph'

SIR,—Because I read the Daily Telegraph I am, according to Cyril Ray, a 'petty bourgeois Tory voter.' I'm not, and when I talk of Tories I use ruder terms than either 'petty' or......

Sir,—whatever Qualifications Mr. Rod Macleish ('dementia...

referring to Americans as 'my telloW-countrymen,' the sine qua non—a knowledge of baseball—is not among them. The reference to 'sixty home runs batted in' apparently confuses......

Down The 'c' Stream

SIR. — Mr. Holbrook's article, 'Down the "C" Stream,' tells the truth but not the whole truth. I can well believe all he says about the group of submerged and rejected children......

-. Entists For Export Sir -..._ Te Your Correspondent...

at the export of British scientists is a compliment our technological prowess. This is embarrassingly c r n IPacent. According to a recent survey (con- uet ed b Professor A. W.......

Sir,—as , One Of The Million And More Readers Of The

Daily Telegraph who, according to Cyril Ray, have neither the money for the Times nor the mental equipment for the Guardian, I nevertheless contrive to purchase and read the......

Stit,—somebody Should Surely Tell Lord Home Not To Lick His

lips continually in front of a television camera as he did in the last Panorama. It hardly gives the impression of a Foreign Secretary nego- tiating from strength, the role......

The Yoshida Memoirs

SIR,—May I respectfully submit that in reviewing The Yoshida Memoirs (Spectator, September 15), your book reviewer, Mr. Anthony Thwaite, was guilty of mistaken identification.......