Massignon In English
Sir: Mr Buchan is right in describing Mas- signon's work as a masterpiece (Letters, 5 March). But let non-French readers not be deterred — there is a magnificent English......
A Bit Pedestrian
Sir: Boris Johnson ('Donnez-moi un break', 26 March) refers to `walk-in' bathrooms. There's some other kind? Hazel Threlfall 38A Rossiter Road, London SW12......
Knight Errant
In Tom Shone's review of Tony Curtis: the Autobiography (Books, 5 March) he refers to 'his lousy Roman accent in Son of Ali Baba: "Yondah lies the castle of my Fad- dah." ' The......
Letters Jane Would Not Approve
Sir: So Paul Johnson thinks the heroine of Northanger Abbey was called Cathleen Moreland (And another thing, 19 March). Even if he hasn't read the book for years, didn't it......
Small Is Beautiful
Sir: All lovers of National Hunt Racing will applaud Lord Oaksey's praise of Peter Scu- damore, i.e., record-breaking jockey (Books, 12 February). But the venerable Oaksey......
Nelson's Waterloo
Sir: It would appear that children long ago stopped learning about Wellington and Nelson (Diary, 19 March). British Rail's 1994 international tourism brochure tempts us to visit......
Thespian Myth
Sir: John Mortimer's story about Michael Redgrave and his all-hearing hearing-aid struck me as too good to be true (Diary, 12 March). By strange coincidence, a very sim- ilar......
Naughty But Nice
Sir: The tone of 'Portrait of the week' of 19 March was overly flippant; I rather liked it. Kate Seal 4/5 Long Walk, Stockley Park, Middlesex......
A Question Of Taste
Sir: Tastes vary, but I am surprised that John Mortimer saw fit to put together that excremental anecdote about my father Basil Dean being blackballed by the Gar- rick Club......
Twerp Alert
Sir: I was interested to read Andro Lin- Mater's review of Warren Farrell's book (Books, 19 March). I had always under- stood that in the first world war the British army used......
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