8 DECEMBER 1906, Page 16

SLEEPLESS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "spscrAvos.•1 Snt,—The epigram quoted by Sir Herbert Maxwell in the Spectator of December let was written in Latin by Thomas Warton, and Englished by Pope, and both versions were inscribed on the pedestal of a statuette of Sleep in the grotto at Twickenham. The concluding lines of the English version ran thus :— "How sweet, though living, thus with Death to lie,

And, without dying, oh, how sweet to die !"