Sia,—In your issue of May 1st Dean Malden criticised a
subject dis- cussed under the title of " Is Money the Root of Al! Evil? " Arguing that there had been a scriptural misapprehension involved in the theme, he reminded the participants of Dr. Routh's often repeated counsel "Always verify your quotations."
In the next issue he was taken to task himself by Mr Markham, who, while approving his argument, pointed out that the Dean had in a small but important degree misquoted the R.V. which supplied his text.
Without going farther it may be apposite to the turn of the discussion to consult Cassell's Book of Quotations (compiled by W. Gurney Ben- ham), from which we learn that Dr. Routh's advice given in 1847 in Burgon's Memoir of him was ' always verify your references "—a differ- ent matter. It was in a speech of Lord Rosebery's 5o years later that confirmation of this advice took the shape " Always wind up your watch and verify your quotations." Quis custodies ipsos custodes?—Yours
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