14 APRIL 1950, Page 20

The Flying Sauce-Boat

S1R.—There will be many of your readers who are, like myself, not Competent to judge between Mr. Moore and Dr. Sitwell as regards the literary issues in dispute. We can, however, all feel again the chilling impact of the disdain which distinguished Sir Osbert Sitwell's letters to your paper last year and form our own opinions of the value of intellectual and artistic attainment, however great, to which modesty and grace appear to be unknown. These two are welcome to the cold pinnacle with which the}( appear to be so well content.—Yours faithfully, 29 Cross Path, Radlett, Hertfordshire. .H. G. RICE.