29 MARCH 1997, Page 28

Lost in translations

Sir: While I much admire Hugh Lloyd" Jones's erudition, what happened to the review of The Odyssey (Books, 22 March)? Having struggled through three quarters of his piece to find any mention at all of Pro- fessor Fagles and his chef d'oeuvre, with the reviewer meandering on about every other Homer translation extant, he finally conde- scends to grant Fagles 'a respectable perfor- mance'. Cannot say the same for his review. Hanson

House of Lords, London SW1