28 JUNE 1975, page 5

David And Goliath

From the Revd Harold S. Goodwin Sir: Bill Grundy's article (Spectator, June ,14) sent me back to the 17th chapter of the 2nd Book of Samuel. Could I hope that we had in Ross......

Peregrine

Sir: An offensive and inaccurate paragraph in "Spectator peregrinations" about The Sunday Telegraph would normally be treated with the contempt it deserves, but a gross......

Libraries And Books

Sir: The decision of the Buckinghamshire County Library authority to buy no new novels as children's books was, it goes without saying, an outrageous one. It wasn't, in fact,......

Hardy Life

Sir: Bookend wrote a piece about 'red faces at Weidenfeld' because we had forgotten to clear copyright permissions from Macmillan for extracts quoted , from Hardy in our......

Religious Questions

Sir: Martin Sullivan (June 21) describes the theory that "all religious feelings and beliefs are an illusion" as "a relatively modern attack." It is in fact rather older than......

Information Please

Sir: I have been commissioned by Faber and Faber to write a new biography of . W. H. Hudson. If any of your readers should possess letters. documents or other relevant papers or......