22 JANUARY 1910, Page 17

MORE ANONYMOUS VOICES.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the article under the above heading in your issue of December 25th, 1909, some sayings are quoted as anonymous of which the authors are well known. It was Sarsfield who said : " Change Kings and we will fight you again," and it was the mother of Sir David Baird who said : "Lord ha' mercy on the puir chiel who's chained to our Davie ! " The romantic story of the maiden who sought her lover by crying " Gilbert ! " through the streets of London gives her nationality as

" Saracen,"—that is, as some kind of Oriental unacquainted with any European language, and not as German, as stated in the article in question.—I am, Sir, &c.,