1 AUGUST 1885, Page 15

THE SCOTCH PORSON.

LTO ME EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1

Sra,—The appreciative notice of Dr. Veitch in last week's Spectator alludes to his remorseless accuracy as a scholar, and says that probably there never was a book of the kind so free from trifling errors as his on the Greek irregular verbs. There is a fact little known—bat which deserves to be more widely known—illustrating this accuracy. Dr. Veitch once spoke to me of the second edition of his book on Greek verbs. I will quote his own words,—" For the second edition of my book I verified every reference in it; if a book like mine is not accurate, it is not useless, Sir ; it is positively mischievous."—I