20 AUGUST 1932, page 14

Latin Pronunciation

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Servante is right in his view that Latin should be pronounced so that it is a clue to the English words derived from it. Thus viva and voce......

Mr. Horace Hutchinson

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There must be a very great number of people outside of golfing circles who have learned with deep regret of the death of Mr. Horace......

Carlyle As A Prophet

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his essay on Count Cagliostro, probably published about a hundred years ago, Carlyle writes : " With general economic distress in such......

Poetry

Three Poems from The First Inheritance (1) The False Way HE who conceives himself to be Exempted from humility By a perception passing keen Of the rapt, intellectual scene— The......

George Eliot

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have followed with much interest the recent corre- spondence about George Eliot and was much surprised at the statement that Mr. G. H.......

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