OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—Might I have a belated word with Mr. Orion ? In your issue of May 10th towards the end of a page article by him, entitled " Pleiades " (a telling example, in my submission, of his " joy of utterance," and of what has no need to be said getting well said) Orion arrives at realization of the truth that " comparison of Oxford and Cambridge is apt to.breed repen- tance." Agreed ; most comparisons do.; and such as he has
drawn here in a pleasantly written void certainly must. Or are we to deduce from what he says that it is for the mere exactness of their expression, devoid of Oxonian delight, that the following one time " worshippers of the Sciences " are famous : Milton, Dryden, Donne, Marlowe, Byron, Tennyson, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Herbert, Crashaw, Gray, Cowley, Macaulay ?—I am, Sir, &c., J. H. P. MARKS. Fernando el Santo 18, Madrid.
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