18 JANUARY 1952, Page 18

Hot and Strong

SIR,—It sticks in my mind that Coleridge said of coffee that ;t ought to be

As hot is Hell— As black as Night— As sweet as Dove—

As strong as Death.

If in Coleridge, where ? If not Coleridge, who said it ?—Yours, &c.,

The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, S.W.1, A. F. WHYTE.