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SIR,—It is a little hard for a translator whose work has been so highly praised as that of Mr Graham Snell to be blamed for a misprint. Your reviewer, who devoted a generous amount of space (January 27) to A Girl Called Jules by Milena Milani, was not of course to know, when he quoted a single sen- tence as evidence of a 'stilted translation,' that this particular sentence got mangled after the page proofs had been passed. It was even more unfor- tunate that the accident should have happened to the first sentence in the book. I think it is only fair to Mr Snell, whose translation of this novel bps been widely praised, to make this clear.
HAROLD HARRIS Editorial Director
Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd..
178-202 Great Portland Street, London WI
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