15 FEBRUARY 1913, Page 18

THE OLD WAYS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Surely you omitted the last stanza of Mr. A. C. Benson's pretty verses in your last issue. The last stanza, without which the rest is unintelligible, ought to run as ".mathian-born we raise our horn And spurn the country whence we fly: Down, down with Greek'' we scold and shriek, For in itpailia we'll die."