11 APRIL 1908, Page 14

"ONE TOUCH OF NATURE."

[To THE EDITOR OP THZ " SPECTATOR." j SIR,—In saying that "Shakespeare's words about the touch of

Nature throw more light than any treatise upon the difficult question of sympathy" (Spectator, April 4th, p. 529) have you not given in to the ordinary oblivion of the context ?—

" One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin —That all, with one consent, praise new-born gauds And give to dust, that is a little gilt, More land than [to] gilt o'erdusted."

Surely that does not throw any light on the subject of sympathy. You cannot make one = any.—I am, Sir, &c.,

A CONSTANT READER.