25 FEBRUARY 1944, Page 14

ST. VALENTINE'S DAY

SIR,—Two notes. One for Mr. Harold Nicolson. Last week he regretted that St. Valentine's Day " should have lost all hold upon our national habits." Let me console him. I am happy in the acquaintance of a Public School boy of just sixteen, who this year sent similar valentines to four different girls.

The other to " Janus." Recently I asked at a Smith's bookstall for a copy of The Listener. The excellent salesman could not supply one, but said " Have a Spectator—very dignified."—Yours faithfully,

VICTORIAN.