Sir, - Regarding Colm Toibin's fatuous and narcissistic article on his compilation of The Modern Library with Carmen Callil (Weekend, April 17th), I am moved only to note that among persons of youth and social marginality such activity is scorned as "trainspotting". Of course it is also good for business and the millennial spawning of what I think Don DeLillo has called "cultural hysteria". - Yours, etc., Conor MacCarthy,
Institute of Irish Studies, Unversity of Liverpool, Abercromby Square, Liverpool, England.
