5 JANUARY 1962, Page 26

FEEDING THE LIONS

Sta,—So far as I am aware, nobody else beside Mrs. Knight has called my polemic on the Humanists fair comment, though, of course, / like to think that it is, and I am grateful for the puff. She asks, however, why I call her book propaganda. Perhaps because whereas my review contained one irresponsible misstatement (to quote her words) which I regret and for which I have apologised, her Anthology contains numerous irresponsible mis- statements for which no one has apologised.