7 MAY 1937, Page 22

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Si,—The description by Ouida

of an Oxford rowing crew, All rowed fast, but none so fast as stroke" will be found in one of her earlier novels. It was adapted for the stage and I saw it somewhere in the 'seventies produced either at the Adelphi or Olympic under the title of Formosa.—Yours, &c., P. MORTIMER MADDOX. The Nook, Bagslate Moor Road, Norden.