12 FEBRUARY 1954, Page 16

SIR,—A 'literally' which Sir Compton Mac- kenzie may not have

in his unusual collection occurs in a passage of John Cowper Powys's Autobiography, paying figurative tribute to his brother Llewelyn. He describes him as " . . . more full of the abounding magnetism of life than any human being I have ever known. He literally radiated the sun-born exultation that mounted up with immortal exuberance within him. Everything he touched turned to imaginative gold. His humour, his high spirits seemed inexhaustible. He drank of Life till he reeled into the morning mists of Creation. . . ."

JOHN H. PREVE-FT

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