14 NOVEMBER 1914, Page 17

THE SPIRIT THAT LEADS TO VICTORY.

[To ma EDITOR Or Mr 6•SPECTATOR.'9

Sin,—It may possibly interest some of your readers to learn that "the widowed mother" mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in his notes to The Antiquary (which are in part quoted by your correspondent " Nominis Umbra" in the Spectator of the 7th inst.) was the great-grandmother of the late Andrew Lang, and one of the " two troopers" was his grandfather, an earlier Andrew Lang. The bride to whom Sir Walter refers was also a Lang, a daughter of the gallant old lady. A younger son of the elder lady, an Ensign in the 94th Regiment, fell at Badajos in 1812.—I am, Sir, &c.,

2 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh. JOHN LANG.