Sir, – Further to the Irishman’s Diary of February 29th, W Somerset Maugham once wrote: “A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.”
Frank McNally qualifies. – Yours, etc,
OLIVER McGRANE,
Rathfarnham,
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Dublin 16.