22 JANUARY 1881, Page 13

" CURSORARY."

[To TIM EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—Let us be just, even to Mr. Stopford Blair. In your last number, you say he will be known hereafter as " Cursorary Blair." I find, on looking into Latham's abridgment of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary (published by Longmans and Co., 1876), that the word " cursorary " is given as a current word, and that the authority given is Shakespeare, Henry V., v. 2 :-

" I have but with a cursorary eye O'erglanced the articles!'

[We admit Sir William Harcourt's mistake and our own.— En. Spectator.]