21 FEBRUARY 1903, Page 15

THE MANUFACTURING OF FRESH VERBS.

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1

SIR,—It seems curious that one of the "verbal atrocities" quoted by Mr. Murray in the Spectator of February 14th should have been used long ago by Tennyson. I append the passage from " Morte d'Arthur," and though some of the neologisms quoted sound barbarous enough, I doubt if a better word could be substituted here.—I am, Sir, &c.,

VEauxuaf.

"From them rose

A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind, that shrills

All night in a waste land, where no one comes, bath come since the making of the world."