ONE OF THE BEST
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Grievances are responsible for far more letters to the Press than gratitude. I hope I am not baser than most people, but I certainly find it easier to overcome my natural indolence if I am annoyed than if I am pleased. Indeed, a book or an article• must be quite exceptional to overcome my indolence in the' matter of articulate gratitude. Such an article ap- peared in a recent issue of The Spectator. I hope you will allow me to register my gratitude to Miss Jan Struther for one of the most entertaining " middles " that I have ever read. More- over, I have my own personal reasons for being grateful to her for her eloquent defence of the garrulous. If silence be indeed golden, it is, I fear, many years since I came off the Gold
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