19 OCTOBER 1918, Page 14

AUTHORS FOUND.

[To rue Metros or THE " Seeoreros."] Sus,—The last quotation in " Inquirer's " letter appearing in last Saturday's Spectator is from " A Ballad of Trees and the Master," by Sidney Lather. It is to be found in The Open Road, an anthology compiled by Mr. E. V. Lucas. The quotation should read :— " But the olives were not blind to Him,

The -little gray leaves were kind to Him, The thorn tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came."

This exquisite poem consists of but sixteen lines, not one of which can be ignored without spoiling its beauty.—I am, Sir, he.,