30 DECEMBER 1960, Page 15

DAN LENO

SIR,—With vanity and vainly, I have long been try- ing to infiltrate into the English tongue a word meaning 'he who has a maniac love of nostalgia.' Despite anguishedly precise marginal injunctions to benevolent printers, they have all hitherto thwarted My ambition. So, one more try. In my piece on Dan Leno last week, the word I used to evoke the sentimental fanatic for the old music halls, should have read (sweet printer, are you with me?) trostalgiac.—Yours faithfully,

COLIN MacINNES 29 Great Portland Street, WI