The Wooster Chin TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES Sir,-Hands off Lord Peter Wimsey ! What if Miss Metcyard, of Somerville and Pyms Publicity, thought him " like Bertie Wooster in horn-rims " ? He was heavily disguised under a false name at the time, and in any case Miss Meteyard, who had a more serious and unfounded allegation to make against Lord Peter, is a suspect witness. Besides, is it sporting to laugh at a fellow who grappled so nobly with his disadvantages ? " It is a silly kind of face, of course," he once confessed, " but rather disarming, don't you think ? 1 don't know that I'd have chosen it, but I do my best with it." So much for physical chinlessness. Of the moral variety he might once have been convicted: but has he not lived it down ? The Times itself wTote more than two years ago: "Lord Peter Wimsey has developed from a rather tiresome Wodehousean ass into a very human and humane nobleman-a gourmet who combines a taste for incunables and cricket was bound to do so." Miss Sayers analyses this develop. ment very ably in a recent essay in " Titles to Fame," where she points out that we none of us grow any younger and that " any man who retained his elfin charm at the age of forty-five " (and what is elfin charm but a synonym for moral chinlessness ?) "should be put in a lethal chamber." Your obedient servant S. N. s r.F.-Some ot us, of course-or at least of our womenkind-do grow younger with the years. Lady Peter Wimsey, when on trial for her life towards the end of 1929 (Rex v. Vane), was stated in the learned Judge's summing.up to be 29 years of age. Yet at the timc of the celebrated death by haernophilia at Wilvercombe in the summer of 1931 she was only 28-such at Icast is Miss Sayers's story, and in later records she sticks to it. THE WOOSTER CHIN