30 NOVEMBER 1872, Page 14

BOUNTIFUL.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTITOB-'] SIR,—Will you ask your last week's correspondent who calla, Bountiful "good Saxon" to buy a half-crown etymological dictionary, and learn that bounty is no more Saxon than its, " foreign relatives Liberal and Generous," inasmuch as it comes. from French bond, Latin bonitas? Most boys learn bonus, bona,.

bonum at school. —I am, Sir, &c., F. J. F.