Degrading Janus
SIR,—In your issue of December 15th, Janus, referring to certain passages in the new Boswell Journal. "filthier than anything I have read any- where," goes on to say: "Much as 1 dislike excisions, it seems to me open to grave question whether they should have been printed." " Mud' as I dislike • . . grave question. . . " How familiar the tones of Mr. Facing-Both-Ways.
Is this not, Sir, rock-bottom silliness, even for Janus ? Or can he sink lower ? We can scarcely wait to find out, but meanwhile do not, we pray you, tell him, -that in the very same week in which he delivered himself of the above, a bench of magistrates are reported to have refused to cause the works of Rabelais to be burnt. Let him make his little contribution to the general degradation of mankind unhampered by such disquieting news.-1 am, Sir, your obedient servant, W. J. H. Snort.. 116 Portland Road, Nottingham.
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