19 OCTOBER 1918, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOTt."3 SIR,—The quotation beginning

"'The little cares that fretted me," the authorship of 'which was asked for by a correspondent to the -Spectator of October 12th, is from a little poem by Mrs. E. B. Browning entitled "Out in the Fields.' —I am, Sir, &c.,