CLERIHEWS Sitt,—D. R. Peddy, in h111 report on Competition 464;
says there were the 'customary few who did not know what a clerihew was' Neither does he!'
The three verses submitted by H. A. C. Evans arc not clerihews.
My dear old friend E. C. Bentley (who should know!) laid down the rule that a verse to be a clerihew must have the selected name at the end of the first line. The whole point was the skill required in rhyming awkward names. Once only, if my memory serves, he allowed a `spot' in his own compositions—that of `Petronius' at the end of the second line. But never, never can the name be permitted in the second couplet., . E. C. B. has been dead less than three years, and already the point of his wit and originality is lost. —Yours faithfully,
ROSA M. CHAMBERS
University Women's Club, 2 A udley Square, South A udley Street, WI
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