6 OCTOBER 1923, Page 17

" MEND OR END."

[To the Editor of the Srxerdvroit.] SIR,—The invention of the phrase " Mend or end" has been frequently but erroneously attributed to John Morley, who applied it to the House of Lords. John Wesley used the phrase in his Journal, August 30th, 1759, in a letter to his brother, December 11th, 1762, and elsewhere.—I am,