30 MARCH 1962, Page 11

SIR,—Two weeks ago your enviable columnist Cyril Ray analysed some

press reactions to your article by Dr. Leavis about Sir Charles Snow: in particular Mr. Ray complained that the Observer referred to the Spectator, without naming it, simply as 'one of the literary weeklies.'

Yet the first sentence of last week's Spectator was a quotation from Jo Grimond's weekly column for Time and Tide—unattributed.

JOHN THOMrsoN Time and Tide, 177 Regent Street, WI