31 DECEMBER 1965, Page 12

Self-Abasement

SIR,—The Columbia University Press, or the Spectator proofreaders, are to be congratulated on a refreshing display of self-abasement. Advertisers are seldom so candid as to quote opinions like the one attributed to Professor Kermode: is only rarely that one can say of a critic that he can safely be left unread. But one has to say it of Frye.'

Trinity College, Cambridge

LEOPOLD DAMROSCH