28 JANUARY 1966, Page 15

SIR,—A belated comment for Mr. Simon Raven, whose writing I

much admire. So long as he con- tinues to demonstrate his feminine flair for minting new words, his work is unlikely to become, as he fears, unsellable; nor (to be thoroughly tedious, pedantic and masculine) will it become unsaleable.

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