7 FEBRUARY 1958, Page 17

SERE AND YELLOW

SIR,—Oh! Please! Reading smugly in Bridget Tis- dall's review on page 140 that Eric Maschwitz is now fifty-five, I noted that Miss Tisdall says he was born in 1910. I was born three years earlier than this, so, please, confirm that 1 am not fifty-eight ! —Yours faithfully,