1 DECEMBER 1917, Page 27

"PLAY THE GAME."

(To nes Boma of xm " Sesermos."1 Ste,—I have no doubt that "Far recta" is the true Latin phrase for " Play the game." It does not explain itself perhaps to those who do not know their Horace, 'but those who do wilt remember Epiet. I. i. 60, where boys in their games sing a nursery rhyme which the Curii and Camilli had sung in heroic days:— " ' Rex erie ' aiunt ' si mete facMs.'" On this Orelli notes "Si facies optime quae ludi lex pouit," and I are I have pencilled against this " Play the game."—I am, Sir,

T. FOLD.

St. Mary's Vicarage, Nottingham.