19 JULY 1913, Page 18

JOAN OF ARC.

[To THE EDITOR OP TIIE " Brxcrrron.."]

Sin,—The very amusing letter by "V. F:" in your issue of July 12th makes one wonder in what sense the quaintly laconic " little girl " can have understood that Joan of Arc was a maid; did she suppose her to have been a waiting- maid? She has inevitably failed to reproduce the initial alliteration of " Veni, vidi, vier ; and you naturally regret- that " there is no equivalent of good which begins with a b." Perhaps, however, a feeble counterpart of that alliteration- may be applied to the heroic Joan by saying that she was brave, she was burnt, she is blest. Beata to in multeribus.—