AND FURTHERMORE

The typo in the name of the Russian temptress in “Magic Mountain” (“Thomas Mann: A Biography,” June 18) does disservice to Mann’s irony. She is not Claudia Chachat, but Chauchat, i.e., French for Hot Cat.

--G. BORDING MATHIEU, LAGUNA BEACH

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Could a stray sibilant have crept into the credit for the reproduction of the Strachey portrait in June 11’s review of Michael Holroyd’s “Lytton Strachey, the New Biography”? The “State Gallery” was cited as the source. I suspect that The Tate Gallery would be more appropriate.

ALBERT J. DESROSIERS, LOS ANGELES