14 NOVEMBER 1931, Page 17

• To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] - Sin,—Mr. F.

MacDermot should cast the beam from his own eye. In his letter complaining against the language of the

Spectator he says : • • . .

" May I submit that such a use of the word protagonist ' is an abominable piece of bad English p "

Perhaps he would be so good as to inform me what an abominable piece of good English is like.—I am, Sir, &c.,'

' F. LoFrus WIG RAM.

The Dene, Wallbam-St.-Lawrence, Berkshire.