The Dragon's Tongue
Sir: As one who is learning Welsh and who has no more than a limited knowledge of the language I feel nonetheless qualified to clarify some points of Sir Graham Sutton's letter......
Swing Of The Censor
Sir: I saw a ghost passing when I came across Anthony Burgess's mention (21 June) of the 'Count of Montalk, the uncrowned King of Poland', who fre- quented the Dean Street pubs......
Lament For The Makers
Sir: Martin Seymour-Smith (12 July) ought not to have used that wholly discreditable quotation from the Times on 'public poetry', as a club with which to beat the current......
Partisan Story
Sir: Mr Basil Davidson (Letters, 5 July), resents Mr Brian Crozier's accusation in his review of The Liberation of Goitre (21 June) that he derives 'relish' from 'the thought......
Eighty Years On
Sir: Three cheers to Simon Raven for high- lighting the dangers of an explosive pop- ulation (21 June). The only long term remedy is compulsory sterilisation after three......
-nicholson Circles The Square
Sir: It is possible, as Mr Bryan Robertson says (28 June), that Francis Bacon was in- fluenced by James Pryde, but if Mr Robertson has ever seen pictures by Pryde of nocturnal......
Why Their's?
Sir: The apostrope in `Their's not to reason why' (Spectator's notebook, 12 July) is not a misprint but an archaism. Cf. `Their's is the kingdom of heaven' in St Matthew, v. 3......
0 Come, All Ye Faithful
Sir: I have patiently attempted to deci- pher the hysterical and incoherent letter from the 'Czechoslovak' studene Pavel Tomalik (Letters, 28 June). As I see it, he makes the......
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