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SJR,—Mr. Harold Nicolson might find an epithet that suited his

own case among the definitions of " Wahnsinnig" in Muret-Sanders' German Dictionary, grouped and punctuated thus: Deranged, distracted, insane; demented; frantic, mad; crazy, cracked. But J. Meyer's Lexikon Medi- cum gives " Wahnsinn " uncompromisingly as insanity.—Yours