THE VERB TO DO
(To the Editor of The London Mercury)
Sir,—Will no one protest against and endeavour to check the ugly and quite unnecessary modernism of "as it does"? I give an example of a sentence, adequate and harmonious as written, which would be spoiled were the favourite journalese "as it does" inserted after the word "embracing."
"The glorious view from this spot, embracing the valley of Ville d'Avray, the slopes opposite, the great city in the distance, was a delight to Balzac."—Martin, Stones of Paris, II., 69.—Yours, etc.,
R. Owen.
Belmount Hall, Outgate, Ambleside, January 12th.