12 JUNE 1959, Page 13

Sta.—My collaborators on The Young Rebel in American Literature were

Carlos Baker, Walter Bezanson, David Daiches, Lewis Leary, R. W. B. Lewis and Geoffrey Moore. Your reviewer has in- sinuated that I told them what to say and that they did so. For this baseless charge against their and my intellectual integrity, 1 for one think an apology is in order.—Yours faithfully,