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pro THE EDITOR OW THZ "SPECTATOR. "] entirely agree with your

correspondent "A. G. W." (Spectator, December 31st, 1904), whom I recognise under his initials as an old friend of my own and of the late Rev. R. E. Bartlett. I knew the latter well, and also the subject of his epigram. It was written before Mr. Bartlett migrated from Balliol to a scholarship at Trinity, and had no reference whatsoever to the well-known Tommy Short, an old Fellow of the latter College. Old Balliol men could quote many other epigrams by the same author, though none, perhaps, so concise and to the point.—I am, Sir, &c., MIDLETON.

Peper Harm, Godalming.