4 DECEMBER 1909, Page 31

SIR WILFRID L A_WSON.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have just read your appreciative review in last week's issue of the Memoir of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, and am reminded of a bon mot of his made in conversation more than twenty years ago. Some one had asked him his opinion, as a land- owner, of some proposed land laws, to which he quickly replied : " No one can be radically sound about anything he thoroughly understands," A few years later I quoted it to him. " Did I ever say anything as clever as that ? " was his quick and characteristic comment.—I am, Sir, &c.,

M. W. C.