7 JANUARY 1905, Page 22

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1

SIE,—It is not often that the Spectator is caught tripping; but your issue of December 24th, which has just reached me, made me rub my eyes. You there say of Mr. Justice Grantham that he is not "pursuing what Tennyson called

petty spites of the village squire." The passage you quote occurs in "Vastness," and the whole line runs :—

"National hatreds of whole generations, and pigmy spites of the village spire."

Surely the "village squire" gets enough bard knocks as it is.

—I am, Sir, &c., NORTON G. LAWSON.

Haddiscoe Rectory, Norwich.