17 JUNE 1899, Page 16

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:']

SIR,—Conamar tomes grandia :- Few knew him, and vet fewer do not know That New Democritus who sleeps below, Whom Melancholy an immortal made And Melancholy in the silence laid.

—I am, Sir, &c., —I am, Sir, &c.,

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