The Novels Of Yesteryear
Sir: In his column of 17 January, Martin Seymour-Smith refers to Professor Plumb's ad- miring comments on Cozzens (10 January), a writer not given to literary or political in-......
Simple Sampson?
Sir: Mr Keith Kyle, in his review of my book The New Europeans (17 January), gives examples of my alleged inaccuracy. In the first, he confidently says it is not true that Jean......
Past Masters
Sir: I cannot persuade myself to believe that C. C. Wrigley was objective when he reviewed Renascent Africa in your issue of 17 January. This was a book I wrote over thirty......
Fashion And Fetishism
Sir: I am at present working on a serious historical study of fashion and its relationship to fetishism for Nelson's Natural History of Society series. In particular, I am......
Anatomy Of The Horse
Sir: Mr Harrison Salisbury is certainly right in one respect (Letters, 17 January): for some- one who, like myself, 'spent his childhood and early manhood in the Soviet Union.......
Who Now Reads Bolingbroke?
Sir: There is an obvious and absurd slip, due to my bad proof-reading, in my review of Dr Kramnick's book on Bolingbroke (24 January). The Act of Settlement was passed, of......
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