26 JUNE 1909, page 34

[to The Editor Of Ted " Spneratoit."] Sir,—your Phrase, "

to abound in " (meaning " to agree entirely with "), is evidently reminiscent of the Freuch idiom " abonder dans son sons" (late Latin, abundare in suo aensu), meaning to......

A Correction.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOTI."] Sin,—In your issue of last week you referred to the possi- bility of Archbishop Tait not having been confirmed according to the rite of the......

Poetry.

AD MATREM DOLOROSAM. THINK not thy little fountain's rain That in the sunlight rose and flashed, From the bright sky has fallen again, To cold and shadowy silence dashed. The......

Half-a-century Of Volunteering. [to The Editor Or The...

In your notice of the book entitled "Fifty Years of It," which appears in your notice of June 19th, you make reference to the author as "Mr. Macdonald." It would, I humbly......

A Dead Language P [to The Editor Of The "spectator. "]

giR, — The words, Ti trpoe•bfpxEO . 8i /2 ' Ilatuuro,, Tisca; quoted in the note on "A Dead Language ?" (Spectator, Juno 19th, p. 9%76), occur in I. 1040 of the Medea, not the......

Rest-rooms For Girls At . The White City Exhibition.

[To THE EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR." ] SIR, —You kindly gave me opportunity last summer to plead through the Spectator for assistance towards the maintenance of a rest-room for......

Art.

THE NEW VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. TODAY the King opens the new buildings of the great Museum at South Kensington, the foundation of which his father did so much to promote,......

[to Tfie Editor Or The • Gpeotator.1 Sir,—mr. A. L.

Mayhew's difficulty (Spectator, June 19th) will, I think, have been shared by many of your readers. The Century Dictionary cites the expression, "To abound in (or with) one's......

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or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of......