17 FEBRUARY 1973, page 23

Juliette's Weekly Frolic

The Sporting Life recently published a letter chastising bookmakers for their narrowminded habit of refusing antepost wagers on races sponsored by their rivals. On Monday,......

Enoch On Ulster

Sir: The thoughts of Enoch Powell on Vietnam were 'too hard to resist and so I purchased The Spectator for the first time the week of February 10. I am, and will remain,......

Fellow, Travellers

From the Lady Latham Sir: I have recently skipped through David Caute's book The Fellow Travellers. This I soon discovered was all it was worth — the inaccuracies were so......

Cross Words

Sir: Please give me space to support Oswald Baxter (January 27) in his protest about the type now used for Jac. It is bad enough to have to keep the Throwaway Supplement in the......

More Deception

From the Revd Hubert V. Little Sir: Your editorial 'An Act of Deception' leads me to report our Society's protest at the way in which the public has been misled by the......

Unwanted Advice

Sir: How can ' Bookbuyer ' (February 10) pass off as new yet another set-up claiming to give advice to writers of verse? And what can be the benefits accruing to a neophyie who......

No Tragedy

Sir: I would like to thank you for your kind feature in the Bookend Column (February 3), but may I correct one apparent misapprehension? The policy of budget-cost novels......