1 FEBRUARY 1919, Page 17

BROTHER SOCKDOLLOGER."

(To run EDIT02. Or TEE SPECTATOR.")

SIR, —The above character was most likely related to the "Brother Blareaway " of our own time. In Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn the expression " sockdolloger " is used to describe a terrific thunderclap in the storm Jim and Huck ex- perienced on the island. Did the elements imitate the preacher, or rice erred t—I am, Sir, &C.,

HAYWARD ',MARS.