The Wooster Chin TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES Sir,-Can it be that you have forgotten the episode of the Dog Mcintosh when, with the authority of a leading article, you state that no hero in English fiction " ever had a receding chin" ? In view of the indulgence you have always shown in your columns to the stories of Mr. P. G. .Wodehousc how other- wise could you have overlooked Bertram Wooster's claim to the title of opisthognathous hero ? The evidence to support this claim is, it must be admitted, largely circumstantial and implicit. It could scarcely be otherwise seeing that Wooster is always the narrator of his own heroic achievements. But in " The Episode of the Dog Mcintosh " we have the testimony of an unimpeachable witness one, moreover, who was familiar with the Wooster physiognomy day in and night out. " Pcrhaps the young gentleman will not notice that you have a face likc a fish, sir," Jeeves respectfully suggested as a solution to a crisis caused by Wooster's threat to chastise Master Blumenfeld if he called him, as he had once called Cyril Bassington-Bassington, " Fish- face ! " " Ah ! there's that, of course," Wooster freely admitted. The evidence is further strengthened by the comment of a friend: " But we can't just trust to luck. It's probably the first thing he will notice." Wooster may not have been the hero to his valet that he is to us; but there can be little doubt that Jeeves knew a receding chin when he saw one. Orni- thologists possibly may be able to add weight to his testimony with a note on the " Pie-faced Wambler," to which Wooster was once compared by his aunt, Mrs. Travers. Finally, is it too much to hope that the master hitnself will confirm the evidence and reaffirm hic hero's claim to the title which you, Sir, have denied him ? Your obedient servant. JOHN HAYWARD. THE WOOSTER CHIN