23 FEBRUARY 1962, Page 16

THOSE ADVERTISEMENTS

SIR,—Mr. Roy Brooks's asides in his house adver- tising are becoming tiresome. I do not particularly admire the Sunday Times (largely for reasons implied by your recent cartoon), but surely it is well within its rights to delete political opinion from its advertisement columns—on grounds not of irreverence but of simple irrelevance. Perhaps it is time the Spectator gave Mr. Brooks an airing in its editorial pages. Then we could judge for ourselves whether these interminable 'books in the running Brooks' were worth taking seriously.

PS.—Incidentally, the above address is a lovely bit of up-and-coming Edwardiana. Come up and see us some time, Mr. Roy!