30 OCTOBER 1964, Page 15

MISTAKEN IDENTITY

SIR,—Perhaps it is churlish, after so long an interval and all the pleasure he has given us. to remind Mr. Alan Brien that it was Polonius, not Hamlet, who was accounted a good actor at his university and King Duncan. not the dubious doctor, who said there is no art to find the mind's construction in the lace. (The Spectator. August 21. 1964).

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