30 OCTOBER 1993, Page 21

Beyond price

Sir: Grateful as I am for Nicholas Fleming's review of The Literary Companion to Dogs (Books, 23 October), I must point to an error for which he is not responsible.

Alas, those two, short paragraphs from Jessica Mitford's Hons and Rebels are not in it. I had to hoof her out, as £150 was asked to quote them. One would have thought that Gollancz needs to attract authors, not alienate them in this way.

Christopher Hawtree,

The Wyndham, 42 West 58th Street, New York

'You're been overworking, Sam. Why don't you take a ten-minute sabbatical?'