30 NOVEMBER 1912, Page 21

PREJUDICES OF THE TABLE.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOII:9 SIR,—It is neither Persius nor Horace but Juvenal in his "Satires" who warns his rich friend against taking "crudum in balnea . . . pavonem." The epithet I once heard construed "harsh-voiced," which helps me to remember the passage.—