Portrait of the Blot
f,sift,—May I add to your probably voluminous correspondence on "The Dlot in the Scutcheon "? As another English exile I, like Mr. Gresham,
'derive much pleasure from my Spectator every. week. Unlike Mr. Gresham, I thoroughly enjoy Janus, the " irascible paragrapher" as he is described in this week's New York Sunday Times, and I regard him as a reward which follows diligent perusal of the impersonal Jovian thunder on his left. I enjoy Janus because he is so English. To me he typifies the elderly English gentleman in an" 1-shall-write-The-Times-about-it " mood, as nostalgic as a bunch of primroses or a policeman's helmet.
After reading Janus's opinions on so many topics for so many years, I almost feel I know him, and am no longer " exasperated " by his " petty infuriations." I picture him a benign old gentleman, silver-haired, golden- hearted, fond of gardening, who thinks up his weekly irascible comments on taxes misappropriated, or words misused, as he hoes his vegetables or potters in his rosebed. Long may he reign.—Yours truly,
53 New St., East Orange, New Jersey, U.S.A. MARGARET COFFIN.
[The delineation is lifelike.—En.. Spectator.]
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