COMMON INCAPACITIES.
[To THE ED/TOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Are not many so-called incapacities and detects really due to mere carelessness? This, I think, is true of unpunctuality, and of the habit of writing illegibly. In both instances it is simply a question of taking a little trouble. " People may be heard to
confess," it has been observed, "often with ludicrous self-com- placency, that their penmanship is atrocious, without being aware that what they are really accusing themselves of is disregard of other people's convenience. The theory of a congenital inability to write clearly is a speciee of the same self-flattering fatalism by which the result of unwillingness to pay the requisite attention to things is pit down to a bad memory." In all these cases one is expected to regard the failing as evidence of a soul above
matters so paltry.—I am, Sir, &c., C. L. D.
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