5 APRIL 1913, Page 19

"AlAIR WAS LOST AT SHERRAMUIR."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...] StR,—The locus classic= of the saying about Sheriffmuir is in Ensign Maccombich's observation on the death of the Laird of Balmawhapple, "There was mair tint at Sheriff- muir" (Waverley, chap. xlvii.).—I am, Sir, &c.,