24 DECEMBER 1988, page 56

Do Not Be Put Off

Sir: Please do not be put off (Another voice, 29 October) by Mr Neal Ascherson's low regard for The Spectator, and its value to those who live abroad (Observer, 23 October). For......

Doubtful Quality

Sir: Why does Paul Johnson (The press, 10 December) say that there are only three quality Sundays available in London? What about the Sunday Times? Tom Utley Sunday Express, 121......

Balkan Hope

Sir: John Zametica, in his spirited attack on British amateurs who write 'unbeliev- able rubbish' on central and south-eastern Europe (Letters, 5 November) is surely wrong to......

Views On Christianity

Sir: Like your correspondent Omar Ali- Shah (Letters, 24 September), I share William Oddie's regrets that Christian churchmen are not trenchant enough in the defence of the......

Unpleasingly Precise

Sir: You stated that 'Few of us [now] doubt that standards of literacy have fallen,' (Leading article, 19 November). You did not state to whom 'us' referred. You did not state......

Poet's Corner

Sir: One of the aims of X magazine (1959-62) was to put the cat among the pigeons. As is evident from Mr William Scammell's review of the X anthology (26 November), it performs......

Change Of Address

Sir: The only thing about which Auberon Waugh ('Another voice', 22 October) agrees with Peter Wright is that Roger Hollis retired to a 'cottage' in Somerset. Alas, alack-a-day,......

Bestiary

Sir: 'The New Testament itself says no- thing either for or against' the idea that animals cannot go to heaven, wrote Celia Haddon (Letters, 19 November). But in Acts x, 11,......