"TRICK."
[TO TRY EDITOR OF ERR "SPECTATOR."]
SIE,—To prove that this unpleasant word is not forbidden by the rules of Parliamentary courtesy your correspondent " Zetetes " cites an apparent instance of its employment in Parliament from Macaulay's collected edition of his speeches (ed. 1854, p. 304). But a reference to Hansard, or to that earlier edition which was reprinted from Hansard (II., 70), will show that Macaulay did not really use the word in Parliament In his collected edition he avowedly recast most of the speeches, including this particular one of February 19th, 1844. And in that recasting the whole passage which "Zetetes " refers to was remodelled, and the invective sentence, "Your trick has served its purpose," was introduced for the first time.
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