12 AUGUST 1916, Page 13

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fro VIE EDITOR TOE " SPECTATOR:1 Sru,—May I place beside Lord C'romer's quotation from Anatole France (in the Spectator of June 17th): " Gardons-nous d'ecrire trop bien, c'est la Aire maniere gull y nit d'ecrire," a couple of linos by the poet Martial ?-

" Omnia via belle, Matho, dicere : die aliquando

Et bone: die neutrum: die aliquando male."—(Epig., X. 46.)