14 FEBRUARY 1903, Page 17

" SILAS TITUS COMBERBACKE."

(TO THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR.")

SIB,—My chief authority for Coleridge's pseudonym in the Light Dragoons is the late H. D. Train, who in his," Cole- ridge" (p. 10) expressly states it to have been "Silas Titus Comberbacke." Professor Dowden in his biography of Southey (reprinted 1902; p. 35) also refers to the poet as Silas Titus, though differing from Mr. Trail as • to the exact spelling of " Comberback." I see that Canon Ainger is of the same opinion as the two authorities whom I quote.—I am,

Sir, &c., M. G. Null. Harpsden _Rectory, Henley-on-Thames.