6 SEPTEMBER 1902, Page 16

ELECTION CRIES.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—The words which you quote from South have a potency of meaning expressed even more compendiously by John Selden. " Syllables," he says, " govern the World." Milton (" Areopagitica ") called Selden the " chief of learned men re- puted in this land."—I am, Sir, &c.,