31 JANUARY 1969, Page 26

Who now reads Bolingbroke?

Sir: There is an obvious and absurd slip, due to my bad proof-reading, in my review of Dr Kramnick's book on Bolingbroke (24 January). The Act of Settlement was passed, of course, in William III's reign, not Queen Anne's, and 'Queen Anne's reign' should have read 'the Augustan Age.'