SIR,—About a year ago Mr. Kingsley Amis demon' strated in
the Sunday Times how a virgin mind of sufficient calibre and natural uncorrupted penetration could get nearer a true interpretation of the events narrated in the New Testament than an entire CO vocation of Anglican bishops, if not of Biblical scholars. Now he has looked at Wesker's allege' dramatic dialogue with unblinking eyes. Since hear- ing the characters speak their lines in Roots I have not ceased to be amazed that anyone—least of all anyone who has passed the majority of his evenings inside a theatre—could mistake such dialogue for the speech of any species of human being whether rural or rootless. This is not the first evidence given by Mr. Amis that if an editor would only give hitt' the right assignment he could undoubtedly rescue dramatic criticism from its present manifest, patent and undoubted fatuity. G. REICHARElt
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