12 DECEMBER 1914, Page 14

CICERO ON THE CENSORSHIP. [To THE EDITOR OF TUT "SPECTAT011."1

SIR,—A phrase in one of Cicero's letters to his brother Quintus seems accurately to foreshadow and justify the action taken by the Censorship in regard to a recent rumoured naval mishap :— " Etiam illud to admoneo ne quid si prolatum sit, molests feramus. volo quam cum aliquo periculo Fret rem, III , 8. ullis litteris committas, quod Multa aunt quae ego nescire fieri certior."—Ad Quintam

—I am, Sir, &c., B.