14 MAY 1937, Page 20

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Anent the works of

Ouida, a leading article in the his of November 23rd, 1895, protests : " What can people think, for example, of our rowing, when they base their opinions on the novels of Ouida, who tells us somewhere of some river-god who would never train, but told his college captain that ' if he wanted to win a race (sic) he would row,' and who ' idly tossing away the stump of his cigar, leapt into the boat as the pistol was fired.' "—Yours, &c., KEITH BRUNT. The Little House, Boars Hill, Oxford.