23 AUGUST 1913, Page 19

BREVITY.

[To pii EDITOR OF THE "SFECIII011."] Srrt,—There must be many of the old friends of the late Bishop Thorold who could give specimens of his keen and caustic humour. May I cap the quotation which was given last week by another of a more scathing description ? To a certain pushing and self-advertising vicar who tried to per. snade him to lend his episcopal presence as an attraction at one of his ventures, the bishop's answer was as follows, You may be an excellent sky-rocket, but I have no intention of booming your atick."—I am, Sir, &c., T. N. R.