BUN GALOPHOBIA
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin, - If to the plan of the aged, aged knight- " to dye my whiskers green And always use so large a fan That they shall not be seen," were added the dyeing of his hair red, a still larger screen would have been desirable !
Mr. William Davidson's suggestion, in your issue of Oct- ober 4th, that a photograph of Mr. Stanley Casson's Cornish bungalow would enable us to determine its merits, is surely mistaken, for the most important item—colour—would be missing. It is difficult to imagine that a combination of green and red for any house, anywhere, could be beautiful, and in a Cornish landscape it must be particularly jarring.
I venture to submit that if, instead of" green painted walls" and "roof of large flat red tiles" with "two red brick chim- neys," the walls had been a warm white, the roof grey, and the chimneys distempered white to match the walls, it might possibly have been as conspicuous but surely less inharmonious with its "perfect paradise of scenery," and the owner might have enjoyed his waterfall and moor without having done more damage to wild nature than the intrusion of man is almost
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