24 SEPTEMBER 1988, page 27

Competition Carping

Sir: Your Competition no. 1540 asked for 'a paragraph, consisting of one sentence of about 150 words, from an early chapter of an imaginary, old-fashioned, egotistical......

Max's Di A Wings

Sir: Mr Ferdinand Mount, in his review of Letters of Max Beerbohm (27 August), writes, 'Nor are the drawings always clear ur closely related to the relevant letters.' Some of......

Bar-stools

Sir: I heard niutiy yeas ago about the bar-stools in the yacht (Letters, 27 Au- gust), and the swot then was that the Greek owner (Niaichos or Onassis) asked his guest to guess......

Hess's Dna

Sir: As pointed out by Doctors Kevin O'Dell and David Coates whose assistance to date I greatly appreciate, DNA testing will prove the relationship between Wolf Rudiger Hess and......

Honouring God

Sir: With reference to William Oddie's The Honour of God' (17 September) in which he comments on The Last Tempta- don of Christ as purveyed on the screen by Scorsese. Mr Oddie......

Letters Austria's War

Sir: It requires (The native hue of irresolu- tion', David Pryce-Jones, 13 August), con- siderable telescoping of time to proceed from the statement that in 1943 the Allies......