18 MARCH 1899, Page 15

A CORRECTION.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Referring to the brief notice of my work, "Primitive Constellations," in the Spectator of March 4th, in which your critic suggests that Hyades means " piglings," I remarked (p. 289): "As the Pleiades were connected by play of words with 'doves,' so were the Hyades, the Phiviz of the Latin poets, with pigs,' and commonly called in Latin Suczike (' piglings 1, but this is a mere popular etymology." I did not ignore this meaning; but, just as the Pleiades are not in origin "doves," so the Hyades are not in origin " piglings."—