12 DECEMBER 1903, Page 15

MR. GLADSTONE'S DICTION.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")

certainly did not understand Mr. Tollemache to suggest that Mr. Gladstone invented the phrase "bag and baggage" (Spectator, November 28th), but, rather, that his application of it to the corruptions of Turkish rule had made it an historic one. When Mr. John Morley used the memorable phrase with reference to the House of Lords, that it must "either be ended or mended," no one dreamed of suggesting that the speaker invented it, but everybody realised that its apt application to the Upper House gave it a force and significance which it did not possess in the mouth of Miss Grad in "The Heart of Midlothian."—I am, Sir, dea., J. RIDD HAYMAN. 2 Queen's Mansions, Brook Green, W.