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THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT THURSDAY AUGUST 12 1965

tflugh t postgraduate course in the s ubject, The Robbins Report spo ke sharply o f the altogether unsa tisfac­tory sta te of postgraduate s tudies in G rea t Britain, and more a nd more university teacher~ a re feel ing that

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT lectures and regula r seminars are

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needed to suppleme nt the mere supe r­visio n o f hi s thesis which is a ll the postgraduate Mudellt in England gen­e rall y gets. A three-year undergradu­ale course ca n of len nowadays do no mo re tha n scratch the s u r face o f some p acked and intrica te d isciplines, a nd

NEW WORLD BENEATH the new B.A. or B.Sc. ;, ;n no po,;­tio n to be left henceforth m o re or less on his own. The tentative pro posal a t Lon d o n at prcsent i ~ that the in~li­(u te should pro vide a one-yea r M,A, cnun.e. with two papers at the e nd o f it, one in American his­tory a nd o ne in Americ an lile ra­tu re. and requi ring. probably, o nl y a short the~i ~ from thl:! ~tuden t. We mus t slress that at p rl!sent this

THE SPIRES Jus t l)Ver a year ago the re was a l ive ly c..'o rrclo po ndence on th i:o. page about the place of Amerieail J il cr~­

lUre in Ihe Bri lish un ivers ity c u rri ­c ulum , None of the correspone.!enl.\ -and they incJudl:!d t\""O Engli)oh pm­fessms uf American literatu re

wanted to \ CC American li terat ure is unly a n unapproved plan; but if m ad e the sole subject fm a n h{)n()ur~ it comes olT il may p rove to be bot h deg rl!e in thi .. I,'o unlry: but Ihere wu)o a very useful course a nd ~omething some ... harp d iffer e nce of opinil,)fi of a g uie.!ing light fo r ol her pos t-

~~~~; ic~~'~et~;/:tli~~no\~~~e ~C~I~~)il;:lb;~ gradua te co urses in the arls , _ e.! egrce I:our:..es thaI hmk I hI,' O ld c itadel s a re going III go on fall · u ndergrad uate through a linkce.! ing in our unive r:o.i ties, nne.! new dla-

s~rvey of :~mcrican gc~)g raph~. ~~:;~;~~e:o \~~ ~~nt~n b~I~!~ti~;dn~~ls~ ~'''~~?'i ~~~ttlC\""h }a)~~ 1)1~!;!ra~~::; - ... ary co nt roversy. Americanisls arc

o;'~~: be~~l~ fll ;'~le~( i~l I~~ r vl1ni~'er_ goi ng to find them selves somelimes s ilies . an tJ ~\'cn a mo ng Ihll)ol! wh t) ..:old-sho uilieree.!, a nd postgI'3e.!U3tC'S t(,<lc,h in them tbe re ha \ bcen ctl lh ider- )oi ll ing in lec lu re room s are going 10

. ~blc anxict y over the p roblem of lind- ~~ ~l~~~:~cd aa~d n~~IL~eb~~~l ~:~~ng~ii~~t~ ing an .. itil.!nt ifying d iscipline -- fur and if (he new in \li lU le can help them

~~~lRt.~~s~~l rr~l\~i~h~:,p~~a;:~~'ii~\~h: bt.H h 10 find thei r propl:!r a nd respected ture. di:-.c lI \ seu in th is cul umn la..;t pillce. it will have ce rta inl y d!;!served week. Those opposee.! h) the whole it-; pb~e in our !leW world as well.

idea of )o uc h hllno u r\ .. chouls arc well re presented by Pro(es~()f D o uglas

Gran!. wh<l \ uggc,led that Ihey ",a y Letters to the Editor .. promote "hallowness. a nd encour-age jac ks-of-all-t rades ". That danger

, (werha ngs. cl}mpositc cour~es in all fields, and the m a.ller is e\crywhel'c being thrashed o ut st ill,

But no ... uch e.!oubts neee.! attcnd the form :kt i(ln l )f another uni versit y in .. (i ­tUliun tha t ha' jU 'it been approvee.! h y the Sen a te of (he Univer:o.ity of Lon­don. T hj" i .. a new I n~ l i lule or United Sl ate )o SlUdie~ , who~e func­tion w ill be .. (0 p romote a nd coord i­n ate U n ited S tate:-. Stud ies in the Uni­ver\in ·. 10 :I "h( liaj~on betwecn teach~r.; llf thi\ \ubje-ct in u the r un i­\'t'rsi l ies, and h) promo te di~cu :o.s i o ll and l:tlll1;ICl w ith I,)t hcr perso n\ inll.'r­c\teJ in the .. ubjcct ", The hope i ... in f al,' !. tha t thi~ i n slitu t~. si tuated in Lono n n, I)l:l~ COOle 10 h I! a nat ion::t l ccn(n' w hl!r l.: the sca ttered :tne.! oft e n hu la leJ A,llle rit . .';mist ... in Oll r un in:- r­<;i l ies ('a n get lo!!('t her to pool their expl!rience :tn ll di loCU \" Ihe ir proh­km .... whcther of rl!:-.careh I.lr It:ach­ing, 11 i ~ intended (00 tha t thl.! in"li ­t ute \ hall h ;l\e a mode rn, fully !ihll'h'd libra ry. and th ere i., hope of a l!enerou .; American benefactin n to h-cJp the neW institule buile.! lh i... lip , The directo r of the in:-.t itute is to be P rofessor H . C. Allen , who h as worked Jo ng and li rc1es" ly fo r the estab­lil<. hm<nt u( Ame rican st u d ies in Bri­tai n on a ... uunll ba sis_ The widt: :o.preae.! suppor t the iJea ha s had is e videnced in the name') o f some o f the .• o ther persons -- (i,~ •. , rep resentat ive~ from 'ou ts ide Lone.!t.lIl Univer .. ity) who hav~ a greed to \~rh! on the managemenl comllliltee: \-1r, F ran k Thistl!;!­thwaite, the Vicl.!-Chanc~lI()r o f Ihe University oC East Anglia, who wi ll be the committee 's fir ... t chairman, Prof~s~t)l' S ir Deni s Brogan, Pro Ce sso r Ma rcu:.. CU lll ilfe. who started Ameri­ca n \ \ud ie:-. J.t Manchester University and j , now head of the new depart­men t at Su ... sex. P rofessor Esmond Wrig.ht , the ~'hairman of the Bri ti:o.h Assoc; i ati ~ll1 for American Studies (whose work is reviewed on page 69~), and Profc"wr Clea n th Brooks, noW 111 London ;t.; I,.'ult ural attache a l the Americ;tn Embassy . The Unive rsity of Lo ndon i .. to be c o ngratulated on

: the slrong wckoll1c it has given to the I idea . :lnd the , peed, (1.10. wilh whi..:h

iL has g,l.lt t he project j!l)ing, What w ill p rove to be thl.! best way

of dra w ing Ame ric;m studies inlo the undergI'iJlIu:ltC" l· u rri t.:ulum rema ins still \'ery uncefla in . But one new deve lopment in uni vcrsity tC3.chin,g thai . it i., hoped. nlay com e o ut o f the es tablj .. hment nC the institute js a

PRousrs WAY Si r ,--In hi s notice o f the ~econd

\lllume o f Mr, G eorg(: Painler's hio­gr:1phi~'a l :o.tudy of Man:c1 Proust (TLS. Augll \ t ~) your reviewer mentions as ailtlgcl hcr far-fetched Mr, Pain ter's SIltJ,­~e'lilln Ihat m)' (di~lanl hUI dear) COUSin ~I ;t rie N ordJinger-Rie[slahi fo rmed one o f the many models for Alberline. In gl'nl'ral crit it.:ism of ~lIch idcnlificatio ns he cond ude .. b), saring Ihal "the traos­formatiOn of the ralV m aterials is so l'atlk';11 tha t the hunl for' ke),,,' is li llIe more Iha n an enter taininG but irrelevant ~a me ",

Thi .. ~·onl,.'llI .. ion would have been whulc-hc;l rtcdl y endo r .. ed b ~' Marie Nnrdl inger, A" "he i .. now dead. but l i v~d to rl'ad Mr, Pain tcr's fi r,t volume, pcrhalh I may be allowed to ~ay a few \wrth aboul h~r all ilUde to the bio­g.r:IP ll )" While re!o>pecling Mr. Pai nter's imIlH~n\e industn', dcvolion and li terary , kill, "he Ihought that what apPeared Itl her tll he h i~ m'lin a im--tu lin d all t he urigi na ls in Pr tl u ~t'" 1)\\11 life who rn i~ht have ~'('Intribulcd 10 the creation llf the I.'h:lracter~ in hi ~ novel, - was, .-u ~ I' ur reviewer says, irrc-lc\'an t-and llIHl lla inahlc, Mo re than tha t. she {l hj el:t~lI vcr), slrongl)' to the ~'avalier \\:lY he treated the male ri a l., Ih;!1 were at hi .. di .. po~al . in purstl inp. thi<; ai m,

Sh e made thi .. dear in a hroad\.'a~t on Ihe buuk whic:h "h e gave nn the B,B,C. Fr<n..-l l ~rvice o n Novcmber I. 1 9~9, In thi~ broadca st she ~:tVC many in'ta n ~'c .. tl f what she cla imed to be \ff. Painter's dis toniuns. and in ponti­.. :ul;tr .. he maintained that he falsified <l lmo .. t ever)'lhin~ abou t herself. Her o.: ,'\;!d \\,ords were: .. J':lth:sl e que pa rmi Ie.. i nnnmbrable~ (Il'Ca'ioion~ 011 M, Pain ter me fa it parlieiper i'l son rccit la plupan 'llnt ine"\3etes, ma l interprc­lt5e'IHl rncme inventees de toute piece ". She then went o n to elaborate her aCI.'u .. a lio n in detail-which would be \\earhnme to repeat her.:-btlt drew c,pe..:ia l attention to the war in which ~-Ir. Painter Iklionali7e!: (;LS she ma.in­tainedl her own ae..:oun t o ( the" Greek" I'lart)' that Mme, Lemaire ea .... e on June 9, I lJOJ,

l-1nallL \f"ric N onJli nge r complained of \Ir, Pa in ter'S inaceuracv in musical mailer ....... herevcr ~he was in a position 10 kllu\\' the truth, She insisted, fo r in'l .. n ~'e, tha t her cou .. in. Rcr naldo Hahn. II a.; never a pupil of Snin l-Sacns .11 t he Con~erva l(lire, though Mr. Pai nkr a.;,crt .. Ihis several times. and Ih:1I H a hn' ~ antipathy to W3i:ner and in(Jin'erence to Fa ure C\; iS led largel)' in ~ .. fr_ Painter'~ im agina lion, She eave c h:LI?ier and ver"e 10 l<oUPPOrl this co n-ienJwn,

I dl,' nul thi nk. \lade Nordlinger \\mlld have relhhcd findin, her entry in Mr. Painler' .. inde'( a~ f(ll iows: "NMdli nGer. ~hrie tA LBERTINE ) ", On the strenJ;, th uf the evidence pro ­dut:etJ b,' ~I r, Pa inlcr r I,'a nnul imagine ;\ n~thin, marc ext ral,rdi na ry, •

JO HN I.EH~I.'NN. X~ CM n\\all G arde n<. london, S,W,7,

FROG'S MARCH Sir ... ,What mcthod dililhose Chincse

p irate\ rcalh' u.;e to convey Ciilfo rd J ~lhn'{ln .lnd' hi ~ fellow-prisonas along Ihe d.:d: '! A .... conJing to your cuntribu­tM 'T/.S. Jul y 191. Mr, J oh n\on o rigin­.dh \HOl c th:u he and the 01 hers we re

"ushered "-a ~Ii p for" h u..sUed", pre­sumably, ~o hI! wasn 't beina journalistic, as you r contribul or ~ecm s to think; he w as just a bit mudLiled. An~'Way , after that. we le;lrn, ~lr, Joh nson was ques­tioned orally by Arthur Calder-Marsh all about .. u~h ered ", and $aid he meant that "(the pirates} pinned o ur arms behind our had, :I nd fro,,-'m arched us ", Your contr;bu:ur evidently sces this as an amusinlh'_ ur lamentablY, far cry from" u.;hered" (;:a nd so perhaps it is, though it j, n' t ffllm " huslled "). But. eviden tly ag ain , bnth h.: and Mr. Calder­Marshall fOilnd th e closs internally sa tisfal.'tory,

However.;1 (rngm;lreh is the carr~ing o f a prl\Oner !' a ~'e e.!uwnwards b y fou r men holding a I. mh each (C ,O.D.), I cannol im:.l!,;:ne h :1\'" hi .. a rms could be pinned behind hi, hack al the same lime, JI seem.:; Ih;11 Mr. Calder-MarshaJ l-and YOUr eonlri t'lUhlr know as little about frogmarchin~ :I ' ~t r, J ohn ~on about u\her.jne,

K INGSLEY AM IS. 109 ;\l a ld" Ville. Lon don , W,9,

SOUNDING THE SIXTIES Sir,-- " Ne('d I ,ay more'! ! It ask ~1

exc,laim~ Mr, (icurgc De vine (T,P', August ~, a fl~r tr iumpha ntly rep9 rt Lng that no pla~ later Ih:lll Mllrdl'1' III {Itt' Cmlu'dml i\ pre .. ~' rib;!cJ fo r A a nd 0 level examina linlh in 1966·67. Y es, W ill he lell u, \\h~ a n}one's first encoun­ter with a l:ont..:mpora ry play shou ld take p lace 11\ IIh' 1!~;lIn ination room or (sinel! thi~ will inevi tably precede} Lhe ~)as~rol)m : \\ hal he imagines an audi­em'e's re"PI11l,e' " 11 conditioned, so indm'ed, \\ill b ~' lik e : and what elIect win be prlhluct.:J hdme IQng on a li rama - 'lIld pllel r~ and Ihl\'d--wriucn for the first lime in tht!' hi:-.lory oC thcse arts, for a p ublk hn ltl gh l up to regard them U obje,h, of a~'; I~kll1k .,Iudy ']

J . C. BRYCE , Uni\er:\i!~ nf lil .I'!,;I)\\', Ulal<ogow, \V,2,

Sir,- Uke IH:lLl\ ~'rilk, o f the c"lab­lished esamina lh'~l hn;t rd~, ~lr. Devin,c secm~ unawar~' thai te,Ldlers ,a n submll their Qwn .. ug.~c' 1 i on~ and 5)'llabi for examination', However. may J~ as a pracl i .. ing leal.'ilcr, ,,:a ll his allent1,!n to t he prkl! nl' .. ·U Ll !e- lllporary pubhshed plan and 11' Ihe f:ll.'l that one is liable to have ;11 Ic:nl h H lr Ad va nced level En glish ~';tndi d,,!e, !-,adl r ear" ,

In General Enl;lh h courses III ~I x lh forms we bu)' and read as many p laY' by eontemporarr drllmatisls as we en n afford, those . Ih:LI i .. to say, published in paperback ... hMrowin: others fr om libraries, .

H is implkalitm Ihal Ihe ac.ade~ruc world is 110: \\l l.' n lhu,i;I,li~· as Ihe wrJ{~r of" Enler the Sen)nl.l Wave " aboul con­temporary drama ma y be true, fO,r ~everal goud rea~ on..;, I um only qualt­fied 1.0 li.ay th:Lt I,\n Ihl! whole (he rea lh' young do n{IL \\:1111 Ihe T hea tre of Cruelt y or of Ihe At-."urd but often fi nd deep sati\Ca~'li lm in Scan O'Cascr. Synge, Yeats, Ib"en, Elitl t ancJ-----<.lare J say !o -Shaw. all of "ho.;c plaB .~ till ~y out for " live ", im;tJ,;in :a ti \'1! produc!lon_

We shtluld vcr r m uch apI'reC,late a ny efforts ;\ir. Oedne .. ',lu ld make 10 influ­ence theatres. p;lrticula rl v the Nation:!1 an d , the Aldw}dl. II) en able school parlie,~ 10 ,ee pl:Lys, hooking arra nge­ments al pre~eLll t'leing q Ui le impossi ble,

\I U RI EI. HUT fON, Engl i, h Deparllncnl. Kin G Edward VI

Camp Hill ~·ht.lIl l fur Ui ris, Vkaraac Road , K in): .. Heat h , 8 irmingham 14,

Sir,-The li,[ ll( "Engti,h Book .. of Ihe ) 960s " in }our :..p~'(.' i al numbcr, "SoLl nLling Ihe Si~ l ie ' ", indudes, under va rious heading~, more than twenl y vo lumes Cll neern~d Wil h (l."pcets oC art. D uring !he 1960\ !\lr, Adrian Stokes ha ~ published h is Tlm'j' EI.wl,n 011 t l/(, Pa il/f­;IIR u/ 0111' Time', Plli"';II }! al/d ,hc' I/Il l/'r World, ane.!'J'J/(' /lLdIlHiulI ill A rt_ None of Ihem ~els :I me nlion in }'o ur li st. Although , " .. yuu "I~· . "the Iht docs n ot pretend to cumJ'llclcne~~ ", it seems to us unfortu nale that i t sh ould exclud e a writer who hot s clotim.; 10 being th e mo~t original and ~·reali".c Ii\' ine Enl,:li sh wrile r on art.

ALAN BOWNESS, WILLIAM COI.D!;T R EAM. ANDREW FORGE. JUHN GUWING, LAWRENCE GOWING, ST UART HA MPSHIRE, BARBARA H EPWORTH, FRANK K ERMODE , R. B. KITAI , ROB ERT MELVILLE. HE N RY MOORE, JOHN PIPER, H ERBERT READ. H ENRY REED, NO R"AN REID, JO HN RUSSE'.!.. DAVID SYLVES· TER, RICHA RD WOLLHEIM,

VICTOR NEU BURG AND ROLD WHITE

Sir,-It i~ \\ it h ;l,illI'lishmcnt that I read in )'l,lUr i,~ue ~)f Atl l;ust ~ the le tter fr om " Rold Whi\..: " . \l r ,hould I now remove the inverlelll.,,,'mmas '! He wrote to me on Ju h' 3 explaining that Rold wa~ a syllahlc in o ne Qf his Christian names , Ihough nllt Ollc a ppe~ring in his usual ~ignature it' :a PHlfessl ona l man. That is why I referred 10 il as hi~ " p~eudonym " , Had he lI ~cd his profes­sional name a~ authur of the two volumes of plle 1ll~ DelY of U/c' anli Twaiu 011('. I .. huu le.! have had no dim· culty in tral.·ini: him through a profes­sional orga nizatitm \\il h \\'hieh he was connec ted. but Ihl!re \ ';l" no way in which I. a stranger , ~'ou ld idc nti C), Rold White wilh a mao in whose double· barrelled sii:nature the fou r letlers mid do not o~'cur, When he ~u b5e' Quentl)' accepteJ ,Ill invitatio n from me to ca ll a nti tl iscu')s Ihi~ maHc-r J a~k ed him whelh('r_ ~incc he now wished to claim the a uthorship of these verses. he would permit me, or would like me, in Ihe letLl.'r 1 \\'a~ wriling to Til t' Timt',f Lit('rttr)' S'II('t,/t' /IIj'lIt , to refer to him by his u~ ual pro (.:~~jon3 1 name ;

but he insisted that the diseui sed form 'should be mai ntained , Tha t he should s uppre~s these facts and now sla te in yo ur columm," Rol d White is m y name. ne it her fictitiou s no r false ", and blame me for referrine to it a5 bis pSeudon)'m i<; unjuS1 to me,

For Victor Neuburg's sake, 1 am profoun dl )' iliad to learn tha t th e poems a rc not by him, and Ihat J need no longer th ink of him as havina suffered from the de;rce of unhappiness shown in them. ,

That there occurred in my book some mi ..quotinl; or mi"printing o f these vePie, (it Wa'i unfo rtunate tha t my type­scriPt wa~ nO I rel urned 10 me together \\fit h thc proofs) I have volun tarily declared,

I have done Rold White no i njur~' ; or if it cou ld be ('oneeived he had any ~'ame 10 fc c! aggrieved, Ihen honourllbl e amends were m ade to h im in m)' first lellc r to your column s.

JEAN UVERTON FULLER. 4 Guil fo nJ Place , London, W_C .1.

GAUDIER-BRZESKA Si r. -I regret Iha t Mr. Wood Pal,me'-"

rcfer~ n l'e to my Gau dler-Brzcsk.a mtro­du clil.ll1 a~ a "muck-up" eann01 be allowed to pa~." in silence, Mr. Palmer. like o ther \clf-st \'led Gaudier" .a uthor i­t i e~ " , i .. hau nled-by Ihe delusion t-ha l he alone IHI" Ihe r ight to speak . t<tlk, pub­Ihh and I,lther\\'io;e pronounce upon the \\fork of Ga ud ier- Brzeska. Frankl y. the o nly livi ng alll·horit), on the 1ife. work and per,onalit)' (If the art ist is hi .. friend, Hora~'e Brud,k)', now in his eighlieth }'ear. If 1 " m ueked·up" anYl'hing at all about G au dier. it was in humility and admi ration from the writin gs o f Hor:Ke 8rodi'k~' and from lon-g con ver­s:l!ion:. l h"d with him, H e played a prominent part in my recent radio bro:u,k; ... t un Gaudier-Br..:e'ioka (Third Prollr:lmme. JUIlI! 5 <l nd June 27). much t('l the I.'hagrin o f the o ther "autIHlrilie\" \\'ho ha d nothing tv .... on­tribute on t h i,~ o~'casion: not even their "nuthM it\, ", Tl1e)' "ill, however , c/ouhtkss 'l'lll1 ti nue 10 draw atten tion to Ihcmsclvc .. l)n u uudi er matters e\'en \\ hen no onl! i ~ a\king them 10 speak,

MERVYN LEVY , The S;l\':lge Club, 37 Kina S trcet,

1. ontlon , \V.Co2_

I SPEAK FREEDOM S:ir.-The reviewer oC SOIl,II A/rim"

I mlrlll' ," by Berna rd Ne"man tTL,), J ul)' 2 1) ) state .. that Ihe South Africa Foun dati on is an organization of "rich indu<;1fialists which lries to put as good a glos~ on llParlheid as it possibly ,an ",

The Founda tio n exi sts to disseminate informalion abo ut South Afri.:J. particU­larly in the eco no mi c and :nJu 'tria l "phcre ~, Ou r cO Il,ern is not to "put a glos~ on aparth eid" but to offe r people the oPPl1rhLl1i t ~· of !ll udying at lij'\1 h:lnd the complex natu re o [ the s ilu at ion there.

t .... Cluld have Ihou,ht that III Mr. Ncwlllan'~ book Ihere was am ple ~vi­dencc"to indicute that if we we re CO Il ­c:erned .. nlc\v with putti ng a g.l o~~ on ap:Jrlhcid we would not have o ffered our fa l.'ili :ie\ to ~Ir. Newma n.

W. S. YEOWART. SllUlh Africa Found:aion, 43 Fleet

Street, Lon Ll on , E.C,4.

CONSU L AT SUNSET Sir, '-Yllur s~:hol arl}', but unhappily

anOn~ OldU \ revi l!wer of my bOQk The S"ddj'Jj A~,,'i~III/Lc'lIr (TLS, Jul y 22) i .. ab\ol uldy right in f'upposin g that my .\pdlinc 1,1( El iz.t bel hville was d~1iber:!le, The rC;I-.on i'io that the language m wlueh Ol}' btlok is written is Eniljsh,

O n ill .. t the same p rinci ple, when I am writing a book in Halian 1 a lwa),,, )opel l R\lme as R OII/fl_ Aga in fllr thc :o.a ke 01' I,'uns i lol en~' }' in all nw bouk .. in F rench) im'ariably usc L()lIdns in :o.leatJ

Ofl!n~ ~~~r~; to ha ve e.:lu~ed )'ou r reviewer ~uch I:Qn l'usion ,

Al. PORT, Hou ~e of Lo rlls,

SOCIALIST NATIONALISM Sir,- In your notice of Til,' h Urr­

IWliulIUit' (TLS, J uly 15) yo ur re viewer \Ialc": .. ~I r. Dult revea ls some h idden embarra .. ~m.:nt by fa iling a ltoge ther to diw u..;.; the German Democra tic Repub­lic and the S,E,D ,"

On PO, 11)1-292 thir ty-six lines a rl! de .... ot o..:d 10 the Germa n Dcmoeratic Republic and the S,E.D, Hardly" fails

~.~~:g~tl~(~lL~O r~~i~~~r" 'mUe~I~~S . ?itl~~~s;. o r "I.·ritidze ",

R, PAl.ME DUTr, 8 Highlield Court, Highfield Road,

1.0 nd 0n, N,W, II , .",. Our rcvie\\'cr write~: - What

see med lackjng ",' a~ any criti ca l a n a l )'~ i s (nnt n('ce,,"arilr an a ll :II.'k) ; but I regrel ~ phr:.t~e "' hkh m ay h.L.ve been mislead-111 1:,

BAND OF BROTHERS Si r.--Foll owing your vcr)' favourable

revi.:w of Jll liu~ Brauntha l's Cc'schichlr.: dc'l' Int!'l'l/(lt iOlw/l' (TLS, J uly I.'iJ you r reat.1e r~ mar likc to know that NcI~on arc preparing the first English tran)la­lion of (hi ~ import;!nt work,

We e~pet't 10 publish the Clr'il volume, translated by Hen r), Collins a nd Kennet h Mitehdl, in r-.'faY. I966, The transla lio n of the ~et'on d vo lume \\'a~ almosl com­pleted by Jo hn C lark beCore his dea th ~ix weck.; ago and.it is hopcd to have it ready (or publicatIon in Odober, 1966,

A, R. MORRIS. Thoma.:; Nc1 'ioon and Sons, 36 Park

Si rect, LonJ0n. \V,J.

697

HARRAP BOOKS FOR AUGUST

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THE RIPPER In Fact and Fiction

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