[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — Aristotle (" list. Anim.,"
VIII., p.590 b) describes with
some gusto a series of such horrors But the crabs Master even, large fish, and to some of them then happens what we may call a ' Peripeteia.' For the polypodes eat the eribe, so that if the crabs see them even near them within the same net, they die of fright: the crabs eat the congers, for 'because of the roughness of their bodies the congers cioinot
1 slip away: the congers eat the polypodes, for the latter eall do nothing with them because of their smoothness." - The passage is interesting for the light which it seems to threw on the use of " Peripeteia " in Aristotle's dramatic criticism (see Butcher's "Poetics," ,p. 329), and also for the ,naivelk with which-the philosopher describes this "endless chain" of
submarine banquets.--I am, Sir, &c., A. 0. P.
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