16 FEBRUARY 1901, Page 16

A QUOTATION FROM DEKKER.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—You have, I see, closed the correspondence in your columns on " The Definition of a Gentleman." Still, I venture to send the lines from one of Dekker's plays to which you allude:- " The beat of men

That e'er wore earth about him was 'a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed."