1 AUGUST 1914, Page 15

A MOTTO FOR LONDON.

[To THE EDITOR OF TH1 "SPECTATOE."] SIR,—Much that is excellent has been written in your columns on the subject of " A Motto for London." If, as many think, it should be a short English one, rather than its Latin equivalent, and " not a prayer or a vow," nor even " hortative," but, as you put it, " a sort of framework into which aspirations can be fitted without straining," " distinctly spiritual in sense," "an incentive to effort," " have dignity," and " be universally intelligible," why not alter the phrase " God Encompass Us "—which, you justly say, is spoiled by its final syllables—into " God Surroundeth Us " P—I am, Sir, &c.,