4 JUNE 1910, Page 18

" THE FAIR AND FATAL KING."

[To THR EDITOR OF TYR " &ROTATOR." j SIB,—Will some reader kindly inform the present writer whence derives the quotation set as a headline to this letter? In his delightful monograph on the late John Henry Shorthonse in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine some few years ago, Mr. Edward Hutton uses the above quotation as such ; but while it most fairly and weirdly describes the Stuart Monarch, who, in Mr. Hutton's ownwords, merely "hovers on the verge of the page " throughout the exquisite romance of " John Inglesant," I am unable to run the haunting phrase to eartb.—I am, Sir, &c.,