20 JANUARY 1956, Page 15

VOICE FROM THE GRAVE

SI11,—As Thackeray died seven years earlier than Dickens it must have been his ghost who expressed, in 1870, the opinion of his rival. quoted by Mr. Kingsley Amis in 'The Cockney's Homer.' Is it possible that George Meredith was used as a medium'?—Yours faithfully,