"SCREEDS OF LATIN"
Sia,—In a recent issue you printed several screeds of Latin. I hope you do not intend to make a practice of this. I'm sure you are aware that we in Scotland do not learn Latin. We never did and never will (or shall?). Well there are a few exceptions—George Buchanan and his pupil James VI and I and perhaps Sir Walter Scott, though I am informed his quotations contain many blunders. More than a hundred years ago J. G. Lockhart, Scott's son-in-law and biographer, in "Peter's letters to his Kinsfolk " ridiculed the attempts of his countrymen to learn or to teach Latin, and got himself into ill repute.
But it appears that in England the study of the Classics is in like case. He that would know to what depths this learning has sunk must N.^ get him to the stirring pages of H. G. Wells.—Yours faithfully,
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