LORD LYTTON AND SUNDAY AMUSEMENTS.
[To TIII Enron or THE " SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—It is related how, during the late Lord Lytton's Vice- royalty, a Soots Member of Council one morning at the close of the sitting drew attention to the playing of lawn tennis on Sundays at Simla, a habit which he regretted to see was extend- ing. He related how in Scotland the Sabbath was very strictly observed, and how when he was a boy his father had found him playing with a top on a Sunday morning. The scandalized parent forthwith dragged him into the library, and there inflicted a series of blows on the seat of the delinquent's trousers with the office ruler. Lord Lytton listened with attention, in his usual suave manner, and at the close of the narrative said it had much interested him as the most striking application of the Funda- mental Rule of From Top to Bottom that, as yet, had come under his notice. And it is further related that he carried the Council
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