A Change
Sir: After so much that was spiteful or shallow, it was pleasant to read Alice Thomas Ellis (Home life, 2 January) on Canon Bennett, the death of loved animals and the mercy of......
Poetical Field
Sir: Henry Newbolt for Poets' Corner? (19/26 December) — he would certainly have relished the prospect himself. But it may be fair to mention that he was surely guilty of a......
Double Dose
Sir: Mr Jeffrey Bernard need not be embarrassed that he filed for the second time the same column (Low life, 12 De- cember). I for one read each of Mr Bernard's columns twice......
Pooh's Who
Sir: My family detected two confusions of identity in attempting to solve your Christ- mas Quiz. It was not Dominic McGlinchey but his wife, Mary, who was shot dead last year.......
Caputo In Print
Sir: Charles Glass rightly praises Philip Caputo's Indian Country in his books of the year choice (28 November), but is wrong to say that it is not available in this country. Mr......
Teaching Mr Worsthorne
Sir: Your issue of 2 January has just reached these shores. I read in it Mr Peregrine Worsthome's Diary, as charming as it was apocryphal, composed as though he had spent a long......
Backward Readers
Sir: Malcolm Gluck (Letters, 5 December) remarks that he reads this publication backwards, which I understand to involve starting on the inside page of the back cover and......
Pilgerology
Sir: I salute Mr Speaght's scholarship (Letters, 19/26 December), but am sur- prised that he has not found the earlier reference to `waugh the pilger' in The Proude Cropure by......
Worthy To Live
Sir: I read, with interest Paul Johnson's article 'When is a Foetus Disposable?' (5 December). I wonder whether any of those who advocate the disposal of a foetus on the grounds......
One Hundred Years Ago
THE Daily Telegraph has sunk a shaft once more into the great reservoir of letters, but this time little oil is forth- coming, or, rather, the oil is not of a good quality. A......
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