STRIX SIR,—Mr, Robert Waterhouse 'wonders,' in the corre- spondence columns
of your issue of April 5, 'how many of yoUr readers are as sick of Strix' as he is.
I, in my turn, wonder how many of your readers, on reading Mr. Waterhouse's venomous and unjusti- fied attack on Strix, felt that the former must be a man of peculiar temperament compounded of pom-
posity and malice: pompous, because, on his own 'confession, the bus conductor's cheerful 'Ducks' makes the august Mr. W.' wince; malicions, 'because in his vicious and insulting remarks he ignores the fact that Strix's complaint is directed against a few individuals who are 'arbitrarily as well as sparsely distributed and whom one may not encounter for weeks, moving through a world. of sunny dispositions in which everybody is out to help everybody else.'
Few will not, at one time or another, have had to put up with gratuitous rudeness from what Mr. W. terms 'a social inferior,' and in my opinion there was every justification for Strix's comments.
As for being 'sick of him' (in the elegant phrase- ology of Mr. W.), there will, I imagine, still be a very . large number of your readers who look forward each week to Strix's contributions, in which a wise dis- crimination, wit and common sense are happily blended. Viva Strix!—Yours faithfully,
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