29 JULY 1916, Page 14

SWIFT ON GREAT BRITAIN.

ITO VII EDITOR OF TES " sraerarea."; SIR,—" Steele the rogue has done the impudentest thing in the world : he said something in a Tatter that we ought to use the word Great Britain and not England in common conversation. . . . Upon this Rowe Prior and I sent him a letter turning this into ridicule " (Journal