20 JULY 1907, Page 18

CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.

THE EDITOR OP TUB SPECTATOR:]

Sig,—May one recall the words which W. S. Lander puts into the moutli of queen Elizabpth in her conversation witJ Cecil as to the remuneratimi of Spenser ? " %Ise moneIYli are given to such men that they may not incline nor be obligated to any vile or lowly occupation." You will remem- ber that so diSsatisted was !she with the 250 and butt 4!)f Canary that she insisted on adding money, spoons, a Bible, and the pair of crimson silk hose (" which thou knowest rhave worn only thirteen months"); and her Secretary of State had to see that the heel-piece was restored. Landor's Elizabeth was evidently guided by the right principle of helping those whose work was more valuable to the nation than remunerative to