6 OCTOBER 1967, page 28

Gash Gold-vermilion

Sir: As a general rule, people find it hard to appre- ciate the poetry of both Bridges and Hopkins; if they cleave to the one they will hate the other. Anthony Burgess (22......

Keeping In With The Joneses

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS There was an exhilarating and life-enhancing roar of rage in last week's New Listener — if you missed it turn on BBC sound or TV for the new......

A Lovely Space

Sir: Occasionally I go to a football match. Read- ing a newspaper report afterwards I sometimes wonder whether I and the reporter saw the same match. So with Mr Tube's......

Flaubert's Education

Sir: In an article on Flaubert appearing in your issue of 1 September Sir Denis Brogan suggests that the world 'Bovarysme' could profitably form part of the English language. At......

Mr Thorpe's Pilgrim Band Sir: It Is Kind Of Alan

Watkins to describe New Outlook as an 'excellent magazine'; but he shows political cynicism by dismissing as a 'non-sequitur' my optimism about Jeremy Thorpe's future because he......