6 NOVEMBER 1993, Page 28

Uses of literacy

Sir: Could you please ask your literarY reviewer Caroline Moore (Books, 30 Octo- ber) to try and refrain from using words like 'alembic', `eirenic', `parisonic' and 'aux- esis' in future? Not all your readers are properly educated and it's extremely exhausting, not to mention humiliating, to have to keep rushing to the dictionary.

Michael McAllen

5 Tudor Avenue, Roydon, Diss, Norfolk