16 APRIL 1988, Page 27

Cover graffiti

Sir: When I was about 13 I was rightly suspected (though not convicted) of some rather squalid graffiti scrawled on the walls of my prep-school lavatories. I have out- grown that now; but does your cover- picture (9 April) suggest that The Spectator hasn't?

Disappointing, in a paper of its quality. I have been entertained by The Spectator for many years, and I'm unwilling to think of it as a paper which (like one or two others) ought to be sold in rolls.

A. P. L. Campbell

Pythouse, Tisbury, Wilts