Sir: Isn't Giles Auty Perfectly Splendid This Week (arts, 7
December)? Do guard and cherish him, he speaks for millions who have never heard of him. I always turn to his writings first and all give me joy, but this week's is the best......
Curtain Call
Sir: The expression 'Iron Curtain' to mark a divided Europe does not owe its origin to Joseph Goebbels as stated by James Buchan (Books, 13 November) nor to the Chutch Times as......
Franckenstein's Return
Sir: Many thanks to Mr Norman Davies for his excellent letter (27 November) in which he quite rightly points out my erroneous claim that our family title was bestowed by the......
Ladykiller
Sir: Dot Wordsworth's remarks (Mind your language, 27 November) about the proper and improper use of titles — 'Baroness' for `Lady' — are not new. The first edition of Fowler's......
Sir: My Second Edition Of The Oxford Dic- Tionary Of
Quotations, the 1970 reprint, gives me 'early instance' of the use of the phrase 'Iron Curtain as being in 1920. It apparently occurs in Ethel Snowden's Through Bolshevik......
Sensitive
Sir: I welcome at last an article in your journal which has the honesty to describe Britain's uncomfortable relationship with Brussels from a viewpoint outside the camps that......
Mixed Reviews
'I'm not sleeping, I'm just retiring from public life.' reviews. Once again, in his review of Julian Opie's exhibition at the Hayward Gallery (Arts, 27 November), Mr Auty brings......
Dire Warning
Sir: There has been much speculation upon the dilemma of the Prince of Wales. The suggestion that Henry VIII could divorce two wives and still be king sounds a bit like `Bring......
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