`Pouncs WITHOUT PREJUDICE' is not surprising that Mr. Fairlie should
resent my recently published political aPpreciation of R. A. Butler. After all, it Was not so long ago that your lofty commen- tator looked down from his great eminence to write off the former Chancellor as a man of straw. Furthermore, unlike the author of the rival Butler book whose efforts Mr. Faille so elaborately puffs, I am not an inner member of the 'journalistic establishment' I However, in view of his sweeping condemna- tion of Politics Without Prejudice, one might he forgiven for supposing that Mr. Fairlie had studied it most conscientiously. All the more curious that he should give the price of my ,",_°01( as 20s. (thus making it more expensive than the rival version) whereas the actual price 's 128. 6d.—a difference in fact and form that can hardly have been a mere printer's slip.—
ours faithfully,
RALPH HARRIS Political Economy Department, St, Andrews University, Fife [We regret the error, for which our reviewer was not responsible, by which the price of Eit.Harris's book was givers incorrectly.— ditor, Spectator.]
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