12 DECEMBER 1903, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Spzerazas.1 Sxn,—In the Spectator of

November 21st, p. 867, we are bidden to remember that the phrase "bag and baggage" occurs as early as in "Tristram Shandy." It might have been added that it occurs twice in Lord Berners's translation of Froissart (1525), in the Grey Friars' Chronicle (1544), in North's "Plutarch," and in a play called As You Like R-

I am, Sir, &c.,

2 Salisbury Villas, Cambridge.

WALTER W. SKEAT.