19 SEPTEMBER 1908, Page 16

[To THR EDITOR Or VTR "SPRCTATOR."] SIR, —Your correspondent Mr. Wilkins

(Spectator, Septem- ber 5th), points out what be is pleased to call a "serious grammatical error" which constantly disfigures your pages. It may be well to refer him to "The Queen's English," by the late Dean Alford (price ls. in Bohn's "Library of Standard Works"). Sections 289-90 and 381, with the caution against rash and positive assertions about construction.—I am, Sir, &c.,