Sir, - May I appeal to your readers for help? Hazlitt, in his essay On the Ignorance of the Learned, writes: "There is a certain kind and degree of intellect in which words take root, but into which things have not power to penetrate. A mediocrity of talent, with a certain slenderness of moral constitution, is the soil that produces the most brilliant specimens of successful prize essayists and Greek epigrammatists. It should not be forgotten that the least respectable character among modern politicians was the cleverest boy at Eton."
Does anyone know who the "cleverest boy" was? - Yours, etc.,
Aidan Harman, Dillon's Cross, Cork.