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 ''antiquity the classical word sometimes gives a nuance to the untranslatable local colour. And every novelist feels this: See Quo Vadis, in Jeremiah Curtius' translation. However, do as you think proper.''

"Yours, ''"L. C."''

''He has us on the hip with his Jeremiah Curtius. And I feel more than ever that you were too drastic in your views and I too weak in yielding to them. . . .''

''We should always guard ourselves against the bees in our bonnets. When I produced Zola's Heirs of Rabourdin, the stage-manager said his play-actors couldn't pronounce Monsieur, Madame and Mademoiselle to his liking: might he try how it would sound with Mr., Mrs., and Miss Rabourdinf He tried!''

If your principle were carried to any length, you would have to call a pagoda a tower, a jinrickshaw a buggy, a cafe a coffee-house, a gendarme a policeman (i.e. a sergent-de-ville), a toga a cloak, a gondola a wherry, an Alpenstock an Alpine stick, a ski a snowshoe: one could go on for ever!

Yet I am ever yours,

Tex.