The Spectator, January 3rd, 2004
THE ALPHABET by David Sacks Hutchinson, £12.99, pp. 395, ISBN 0091795060 Nourishing alphabet soup Alphabets have always fascinated: Ben Jonson, Samuel Johnson (who didn't approve of his own initial), Descartes, Edward Lear, Kipling; Victor Hugo wasn't the first to be mystical about our Latin one. Human society, the world and the whole of mankind are to be found in the alphabet. A is the roof, the gable with its crossbar; or it is the greeting of two friends who embrace and shake hands - and so on, through the whole alphabet. 'P is the porter standing with a burden on his back . . . Z is lig...
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