19 APRIL 1957, Page 16

SIR, — It would be interesting to know how Mr. Osborne thinks

that one deficiency of taste can be remedied by another. Really, it is a little unreason- able to allow into one's house an observer and then to rail at him for observing, unless the observation is inaccurate, which does not appear to be Mr. Osborne's complaint. And sneering is neither a help- ful nor a dignified reply to prying.—Yours faithfully,

PAUL RIES COLLIN