10 AUGUST 1996, page 22

Some Of His Best Friends .

Sir: Pursuant to Michael Tanner's superb analysis of Wagner's alleged anti-Semitism (Arts, 27 July), heretofore unknown is the fact that the best friend of Wagner's only child,......

In Defence Of Hugo Young

Sir: We write as the three members of the Scott Trust who are independent of both the Guardian and the Scott family to cor- rect the abusive attack on its chairman, Hugo Young,......

Dog Days

Sir: But Benjamin Britten did have a dog(s) (Letters, 3 August). Years back on holiday at Aldeburgh we were sheltering from the wind beside a breakwater and he came run- ning......

Letters

Anti-establishment Sir: Douglas Johnson (The high cost of French politics', 27 July) makes no mention of a major reason for so many French politicians and business leaders being......

Still Looks Back In Anger

Sir: Why is poor old Milton Shulman, the King Canute of theatre criticism, still trying to belittle the changes he opposed during his working lifetime (`Look back at myths', 3......