14 JANUARY 1911, Page 16

"A SCOUT'S SON."

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—In your review in last week's Spectator of "A Scout's Son " you quote :—" The sort of fellow who asks any one about

his father does not generally do it from curiosity, but so that he can sniff at the answer." William Lily in bis " Carmen de Moribus " wrote four hundred years ago :— " Est alias qui se dam clarum sanguine jectat Insulso reliquis improbat ore genus."