23 MARCH 1962, Page 15

SIR, —The significance of Snow is simple—it is that his novels,

with all their faults, tell us something of the world we live in. He is a scientist and has known from inside 'the Corridors of Power.* Leavis isn't and hasn't. Perhaps it is because of this that Leavis does not signify whereas Snow does.

J. BODINGTON

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