Portrait of Lita
S1R,—For fifty years and more I have read the Spectator every week, except when I have been out of reach of it. Never until this article appeared has it printed anything that has left the least trace of a bad taste in one's mouth. Let us hope that the experiment will not be repeated. Corruptio optimi pessima. The analogy set forth by your correspondent Mr. Hepper last week is surely misconceived. If one sets out to read Constant, Byron or Flaubert one knows what one may expect. In the Spectator one doesn't expect it. It is much to be hoped that you will not accept Mr. Gresham's suggestion in last week's correspondence and give Janus the sack. His notes are one of the first things that I look at, never
without pleasure and profit.—Your obedient Servant, R. E. MARTIN. The Brand, Loughborough.
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