30 JANUARY 1948, Page 5

, The Attorney-General rather startled more pedantic members of the

House of Commons on Monday by referring, in connection with the notorious Baxter v. Baxter to " marital " relations, laying. heavy emphasis on the middle syllable. I have since learned on the highest legal authority that the Bar, particularly in the divorce court (with which I am not extensively familiar), habitually treats the English. language thus. I wish it wouldn't, but I admit that the O.E.D. gives an option ; and the derivation does unquestionably