Beauman Bash
Sir: Readers of the SPECTATOR ,should be informed that Sally Beauman's description of the novels of Nina Bawden (12 December) as 'bad books . . . of a slushy romantic nature' is......
Palmer Bash
Sir: My thanks to Tony Palmer for the laugh of the week. A member of the 'minority of a minority' has at last begun to realise the futility of plugging the high progressive......
Protests Lodged
Sir: With his lips firmly pressed to the hem of Mr Wilson's gar- ment—or to somewhere close to it—it is hardly surprising that your correspondent, Mr T. C. Skeffing- ton-Lodge,......
Waugh Bash
Sir: In his review of The Fruits of Winter (12 December), Auberon Waugh castigates the author. Ber- nard Clavel, for taking ninety- seven pages to describe how a re- tired......
Competition
No. 636: Dear Sir . . . Set by E. 0. Parrott: Recently a letter appeared in the SPECTATOR apparently from E. M. Forster in the Elysian Fields. Competitors are invited to submit......