THE WRITING OF ENGLISH
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of the 6th inst. there appears a short story called " A Wedding." The method or style adopted by the author savours of surrealism, and, in my view, is particularly revolting to readers of your excellent paper, who are probably more accustomed to good English.
To appreciate good writing is it necessary to distort construc- tion and balance and introduce sentences that lack rhythm; or am I so old-fashioned that I have failed to appreciate the finer points of the author's style ?
At any rate, I submit, with respect, that you, Sir, or the author, should preface a story of this kind with a brief explana- tion as to what it is all about, as candidly neither a sense of classification nor a sense of frivolity in the use of language will
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