6 JANUARY 1956, page 18

`children's Comics'

SIR, — While° accepting the general principle that authors are fair game I feel that I must reply to the points of detail raised by Mr. Amis in his comments on my book......

Contemporary Arts

The Course of Ballet AFTER their longest period of evening-starva- tion since 1945, London balletgoers can begin again to indulge their favourite orgy, for the Sadler's Wells......

The Third

I, TOO, used to resent the way in which radio critics devoted so much of their attention to television. In the past few days I have been listening, instead of viewing : mainly......

Sir,—some Time Ago You Allowed Me To Air In Your

paper a grievance which I shared with many others who have taken to bed-making in their riper years, that blankets were not marked with a line down the middle which would help......

Christmas Questions

SIR,—In the answers to the above the six Cam- bridge dons made a frightful 'bloomer' in calling the Sudras Untouchables (Question 13 d). The Sudras are the cultivators and......