23 JULY 1942, Page 14

SIR,—AS one who derives infinite pleasure from " Marginal Comment,"

I must yet protest indignantly at Mr. Nicolson's scathing remark in The Spectator of July 57th that " the works of Charles Kingsley were really unreadable." At the age of 14 I, too, was given as a school prize The Heroes, and maintain that it was a never failing source -.3f enjoyment, as was also Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.—Yours, &c.,