10 JULY 1909, Page 19

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 connexion with the

interesting letters in last week's and the previous issue of the Spectator on the above subject, I wonder if many of your readers remember what Browning wrote in "A Lovers' Quarrel "

"Here's the Spring back so close, When the almond-blossom blows: We shall have the word In a minor third There is none but the cuckoo knows."