9 OCTOBER 1971, page 27

Ex-liberal Peer To New Liberal Peer

Sir : The explosion of loyalty towards his fellow Liberal peers with which Lord Avebury begins his new and I am sure fertile career is, I supPose, some compensation for the......

Renewed Frolic?

Sir: Now that there is no ceiling on bank advances and the banks are flush with money why not ask for an overdraft of £100 for Juliette Who alas! is down to her last decimal......

Splenetic Trivia

Sir: Mr Cosgrave has exhumed (September 25) a number of arresting ideas that have survived intact their burial in the common clay. He clatters away at his typewriter over a page......

Winning The Election

From Lt Col H. B. Petty Sir: In your article ' Winning the Election' (October 2) you remark that "the continuation of the Irish mess . . . will do the Government no good." The......

Bragg's Waugh

Sir: Always a great joy to read Mr Waugh's reviews of my books (October 2). One point. Another novel, besides my own excellent work, falls foul of many of the Don'ts among his......

Gray's Elegy

Sir: Professor Rousseau's letter on Gray's Elegy (October 2) may not explain anything about the Elegy, about Gray's poetic insight and feeling, or about poetry as such. But it......

Gaelic Reaper

Sir: Charles Seaton reporting on Competition no 666 (September 25) surely makes a blunder when he assumes that Wordsworth's "Highland Lass' would address the poet in broad......