5 SEPTEMBER 1958, Page 22

ACROPHOBIA

Quigly, reviewing the film Vertigo in your issue of August 15, wrote: `. . . we peer ver- tiginously down a skyscraper every timeithe detective has one of his agoraphobic turns, which managed to give me a mild dose of agoraphobia myself'— and, it might be added, a malapropistic spasm. But for Mr. James Stewart's lazy diction, there could have been no doubt in Isabel Quigly's mind that the con- tagion was in fact acrophobia; if indeed she ever sincerely believed that it was not the height they feared, but the market place beneath.—Yours faith-, fully,

Bridge House, Bull Lane, Gerrards Cross

DUNCAN GORDON

Bridge House, Bull Lane, Gerrards Cross