Stit,—It was with great surprise and a little pain that
I learned from Mr. J. G. Gilchrist's letter that you have among your readers one who objects to "Screeds of Latin "—I am sure there are many thousands who enjoy them. "They charm us back to childhood" or at least to boyhood, make us think again of Dido and Aeneas, and often in one short word recall volumes of ingenious literature. I for one hope you will continue the practice which tends to lift The Spectator to the level of The Times and reminds us of Addison, Swift and Steele, your predecessors. If
Mr. Gilchrist writes truly I'm sorry for poor Scotland—Latin not taught there! Is the acquisition of English such a task that there is no time left in their long winter nights for the enjoyment of Latin. I'm sure Bobby Burns wished to be thought "learned and clerk." I would als:: venture the opinion that without Latin and Greek no European is
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