29 DECEMBER 1917, Page 13

" PLAY THE GAME."

[To TBZ EMT... Or no " SPECTATOR.") S1R,—If your correspondent •' Kismet" desires a Latin phrase to express, not the peculiarly English metaphor but the underlying ideal. he will, I think, find what he needs in the line of Ennius:— " Non cauponantee helium sed belligerantes."

I osmium° that the pets-nary idea is " Don't cheat," and that " Don't slack" is important, but secondary.—I am, Sir, he.,