15 OCTOBER 1904, Page 14

• MIXED METAPHORS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

hope I am not acting traitorously to the good cause in not resisting the temptation to quote a fervid orator whom I heard declare at the end of a really very effective speech that "Mr. Chamberlain dangles this plank of his programme before the eyes of the electors, and uses it as a bait for his political hook."—I am, Sir, &c., HUGH B. ROOPER. Garclone, Italy.