10 JUNE 1899, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—I hope I may

be pardoned for my temerity in advancing to lift the gage flung down to the Master of Trinity by your correspondent, "Olim Harroviensis," in the Spectator of June 31d. May I suggest the following as a translation of the Latin epitaph 9—

To few well known

By fewer still forgot Here rests Democritus the Less Whom Despond dowered with Life and Death.

St. Alphege Vicarage, 139 Blackfriars Road, S.E., June 6th.