2 SEPTEMBER 1922, Page 17

" THE NEW RICH."

[To THE Enrroa OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Could this class be better hit off than by Pliny (albeit he was rather thinking of the vulgar rich)?

" Igitur memento nihil magic ease vitandum quam istam luxuriae et sordium novam societatem quae earn sint tur- pissima discreta ae separate, turpius junguntur."—Letters, ii.