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Sir: Perhaps it was natural that I should not rush to praise your chief book reviewer, Mr Richard Luckett, before he had fairly established himself. However, now that he has been under attack from one or two malcontents, who never understand when they've had it so good, I want to affirm that for me Richard Luckett is one of the best critics I have read in The Spectator for very many years. I need not say that he writes like an angel — all your best contributors do which is the first reason for reading the Spectator, whatever rubbish they write — but that it is a stimulating experience to sit at the feet of a man with an encyclopaedic knowledge of all the arts and whose judgement appears to me impeccable.
It struck me that I couldn't say he was "witty." Thank God! Those who have something true to say don't need to be. M. Hopper Lismoyle Cottage, Wittersham, Tenterden, Kent
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