13 APRIL 1962, page 15

Stn. Liven A Very Angry Author, Reaching Tor His Typewriter

to answer a critical review, might first read what the reviewer wrote. In 4 Scattering of Dust, Mr. Herb Green indicated that the 1945 Skif rising was provoked by the French......

Why No Translations?

Parmee wonders why the works of European novelists such as Queiroz, Galdos, Baroja, Storm and Fontane are not available in English translation. There is a very simple reason. As......

Widows Might

SIR,—Katharine Whitehorn's article in your publi- cation of March 23 (I received it only today) pin- points the many difficulties and problems that beset a wife when she becomes......

Paris Theatre

The Great Bed of Turenne By BAMBER GASCOIGNE The facts don't fit this picture. Paris may have produced as many playwrights as London in the past decade, but they are hardly a......

The Wen Or Wart

SIR.—May I record the delight of another Gael at Colin MacKay's condemnation of the great Wart. William Cobbett, too, warned us of the great dangers of this great city with its......