30 MAY 1952, Page 5

I learn with interest—and I am sure that Mr. C.

S. Forester will learn with greater interest—that the existence of a Horatio Nelson Hornblower, a real live one, has been discovered. It is perhaps not quite accurate to describe him as a real live one, because in fact he is a real dead one. But he was a live one once. The record of his death has been discovered, according to the Bookseller, in the register of St. Mary's Church, Swansea. But, despite his name, there was not much of the salty mariner about him. He was a clerk in a local zinc works. JANUS