19 NOVEMBER 1881, Page 14

UNDER THE SUNSET.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your critic must have overlooked the expression in "Macbeth" (Act v., scene 3) :— " The mind I sway by and the heart I bear, Shall never sagg with doubt nor shake with fear !"

The word is certainly unusual, but it has Shakespeare's