28 AUGUST 1915, Page 16

DR. WATTS AND SOUTHAMPTON.

[To THE EDITOR 07 TEE .EPIECTATOR."1 SIR,—Southampton folk cherish the tradition that "There is a land of pure delight" was suggested by a sunset on South- ampton Water. But the Isle of Wight coast (about twelve miles off) is too distant to show colour. "Jordan's narrow stream" must stand for either the Test or the Itchen, between which Southampton lies.

"Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood

Stand dressed in living green,"

might be, on the one side, the fields of Hythe and MarchwoOd, or, on the other side (beyond the lichen), Peartree Green or the sloping lawns of Weston, irradiated by evening sunlight.