26 JUNE 1909, Page 34

[To TFIE EDITOR Or THE • GPEOTATOR.1 SIR,—Mr. A. L.

Mayhew's difficulty (Spectator, June 19th) will, I think, have been shared by many of your readers. The Century Dictionary cites the expression, "To abound in (or with) one's own sense," and renders its meaning as " to be at liberty to bold or follow one's own opinion or judgment," but marks the phrase as obsolete. Two examples are given, viz. :— " I meddle not with Mr. Ross, but leave him to abound in his own sense."—(Bramhall, II., 682.) "Moreover as every one is said to abound with his own sense, and that," &a.—(Howell, " Forreine Travail," I.)