2 MARCH 1912, Page 16

A QUESTION OF GRAMMAR.

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPEOTATOR."]

Sin,—Your correspondent "Murray Lindley" does well to protest against the growing use of what he calls the " irre- lative nominative absolute," but is be right in classing "the split infinitive" with it as being a" grammatical error "P This latter is very often unnecessary, and nearly always slovenly, but surely it is not " bad grammar." Browning uses it (" Waring "), and also Hood (" Lycue the Centaur "), and in both these instances it is, to my mind, most effective.—I am,