27 MAY 1916, Page 14

curious fact that the phrase Peace with Honour, ' which he

was to bring forth with suoh enormous effect at the time of the Treaty of Berlin in 1878, was invented by Disraeli in 1855 to sum up the character of the peace which he then advocated with Russia." Is not this an error ? Was it not rather a selection from Shakespeare, as the phrase occurs in Volumnia's speech (Coriolanus, Aot III., So. ii., line 50) ?- I am, Sir, &c. E. A. LLOYD.

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[Yes. We should have said that Disraeli first "adopted " the phrase in 1855, not in 1878, as is generally supposed.—ED. Spectator.]