16 SEPTEMBER 1911, Page 16

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—In the scattered writings of Joubert, collected and

edited by Chateanbriand and published in 1838, after Jonbert's death, are to be found the following thoughts which may he useful when we are inclined to allow the critical faculty to carry us away

"One should be fearful of being wrong in poetry when one thinks differently from the poets."

"Do not bring into the domain of reasoning that which belongs to our innermost feeling."

" State truths of sentiment and do not try to prove them."

Downton, Wilts.

LThis correspondence must now cease. We regret that we have been unable to print all the letters we have received on

the subject.—En. Spectator.]