16 MAY 1925, Page 17

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On page 712 of

your issue of May 2nd you make a reference to curry powder and the Duke of Norfolk. On p. 80 of G. W. E. Russell's Life of Gladstone (Sampson Low, 1892) comes the following : " The head of the English peerage recommended the poor to rely on curry powder as a nutritious and satisfying food."—I am, Sir, &c.,

A. F. DAucLisir.

High Habberky House, Nr. Kidderminster.