14 MAY 1937, Page 20

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I apologise for my

tardiness in supplying relevant information to this vital discussion. I have just returned from the Near East and had half a" dozen of my Spectators to catch up. Speaking as a very ancient man (to whom your other correspondents on this-topic appear as unlettered children scrabbling in a darkened room), I affirm that what Ouida's hero said was " I will help you to beat Cambridge, old chap, but I won't train." I have pawed madly through the literary garbage of an old house for documentary evidence without success. But I stand adamantine to this point.—Faithfully