13 DECEMBER 1913, Page 16

A CORRECTION.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTAT011.1 SIR,—I read in your review of Oxford and Cambridge collec- tions of modern verse the following sentence : "It always surprises us that the Newdigate, with its Popian couplets, ever gets itself written nowadays." May I point out to your reviewer that "Popia.n couplets " are no longer obligatory P For the last eight years, at least, competitors have been allowed to offer any metre they please.—I am, Sir, &c.,

A. D. GODLEY.