13 MAY 1905, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

Sin,—The words " Je vas on je vais mourir ; l'un on l'autre se dit!" are said by the author of "Curiosities of Literature" (in the chapter on "Poetical and Grammatical Deaths ") to have been uttered by Pere Bohours, a French grammarian, when dying.—I am, Sir, &c., J. A. BRIDGES.