8 MAY 1942, Page 12

CORRECTED QUOTATIONS

SIR,—In your May 1st issue, W. S. Gilbert is quoted, correctly, Sir W. Beach Thomas and incorrectly by Mr. W. J. Turner. Gil was such a great comic poet that he deserves to be quoted con He actually wrote:

"Every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive."

F. W. BEVAN

Spilsby, Lincs.

Stn,—Dean Malden has not quoted the R.V. quite correctly. It s be "The love of money is a root of all kinds Of evil." There are roots, but the love of money is one of them, and an important I have often myself noticed and corrected the misquotations which

Dean's letter so well exposes.—Yours, &c., ROGER F. MARKHAM Aughton Rectory, Ormskirk, Lanc.