12 AUGUST 1922, Page 16

COMPTON DANDO.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—In your article on the British Museum picture cards you mention the saying of a Somersetshire man about Compton. Dando. This interests me much, as I was at a private school there, 1865-1868, and have never since then seen or heard the name mentioned. Could you tell me where you get the saying from? The school I was at was kept by the Rev. C. L. Cornish, who had married (I think) Keble's sister. He went out in [The saying is proverbial. The parson spoke of the glories of heaven, its angels, its harps and its silvery quires; but the sick man only replied : " That be al very well, but gie of Compton Dando."—En. Spectator.]