16 DECEMBER 1911, Page 17

HEXAMETERS: A CORRECTION.* when Tennyson sang of Virgirs "stateliest measure,"

'Twas the hexameter verse, not the iambic, he meant.

Nor did the poet write with alliteration ungainly : "Moulded by mouth of man" ; "moulded," he wrote, "by

the lips."

[A very neat example of bow easy it is to write colloquial hexameters—much easier, it appears, than to quote Tennyson colloquially and correctly.—Eu. Spectator.]