14 MAY 1927, page 14

Letters To The Editor

THE PRONUNCIATION OF LATIN [To-the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,---I read with great pleasure the very interesting article by Mr. J. R. Roxburgh on " The Pronunciation of......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sir, — Mr'. A. J. Ellison

says in his letter in your issue d April 30th that France, as a result of its low birth-rate, had comparatively greater losses in the late War than any other belligerent. If......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sts, I Do Not

think Mr. Roxburgh in his article should have dismissed the Roman Catholic pronunciation of Latin as cursorily as he did. The Mass has been said in Latin since the days when......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

Sin,-- When Lord Oxford and Asquith addressed a learned Society in Edinburgh with a Latin poet as his theme, not one in ten understood his Latin references, quoted in what was......

Lessons Of The Census [to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

SIR,—In his letter on this subject Mr. Ellison argues that an increase in population and production similar to that in evidence during the nineteenth century would be conducive......