26 DECEMBER 1903, page 17

The Secret Of Keats's Line.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Snt, — It is perhaps a shame to give away the secrets of poetry; but the secret of Keats's line (see Spectator, December 19th, p. 1,080) is......

A Correction.

ITO THE EDITOR OP Till "SPECTATOR."' Sra, — In the Spectator of December 19th, p. 1,070, I read : "No man, as Dr•. Johnson said, was ever written down except by himself." Now......

"securus Jijdicat Orbis Terrarum." Go The Editor Of The...

SIR, —I do not think this means " The round world must be right" (Spectator, December 19th). If so, it is a vain tale. The "round world" once judged itself circumnavigated de......

Mr. Morley On Gladstone At Eton.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SpEcrAToR."1 SIR, — Although the career of Mr. Gladstone at Eton scarcely foreshadowed a Double First at Oxford, and was chiefly re- markable for......

M Us Ic.

THE CASE OF THE LATE-COMER. IT is curious to observe in recent discussions of the un- punctuality of concert-goers, and of the efforts made by concert- givers to deal with the......

Poetry.

THE LEGEND OF THE ASS. " WHAT means the mark upon thy back, dear Griz P I trace it on thy shoulders as I ride. Slender the cross it seems that shadowed is Even to thy side."......