"The Letters of Mercurius" by Mercurius Oxoniensis - book review

A book a satirical letters about the student revolts at Oxford University in 1968-70 written in a comical Elizabethan English and published pseudonymously, at the time, in the Spectator. These were recommended to my by my father-in-law, Tom Wheare, who also lent me his copy, which has an appropriately fusty smell and yellowing pages. The language is delicious, even if the events behind them are now slightly occluded and muddied by in-jokes. I love the sweeping way each letter is signed off as one sentence runs into the farewell. It also features "lady Wheare" (Tom's infamous mother), who somehow got involved in the student occupation of the Clarendon Building. An musing diversion.