Jurors With Form

Sir: I was interested to read of Ferdinand Mount's experience as a juror (2 May) and his observation that jurors are now selected from 'twelve representative persons' rather......

Irish Charity

Sir: It was Dr Johnson who invented the celebrated maxim: The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.' Perhaps that is why your reviewer, John Stewart......

Impressionist

Sir: I derived great pleasure from Gerda Cohen's article on Picardy in your issue devoted to the elections in France (2 May). It was a wonderful evocation. It was like walking......

Camels Of The Coto

Sir: In his review of Robyn Davidson's Tracks (14 March) James Hughes-Onslow quotes, among the 'facts' about camels supplied by Thomas Cook, 'that the last ones in Spain were......

Monkey Puzzle

Sir: Reviewing the first programme in Richard Leakey's series on The Making of Mankind (9 May), Richard Ingrams says that 'the evidence that man evolved from monkeys has always......

More Accuracy

Sir: Paul Johnson (`More matter, less art', 9 May) has got it wrong. The decision to end the National Book Awards has, to the best of my knowledge, been greeted with complete......