21 FEBRUARY 1941, Page 5

Mr. J. L. Garvin's initials are so essentially a part

of his personality that it is quite a shock to find him described as " Mr. James Garvin " in the report of the recent investiture at which he received the insignia of Companion of Honour. The Times, indeed, was so unnerved by the innovation that it appears to have rendered his Christian name as Jams, hurriedly defaced in the plate when it was too late to make a ovrection.