COMPTON DANDO.
(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Mr. C. R. Haines will welcome your story but will still wonder at the distinction you have conferred upon Compton Dando. It is, in fact, a borrowed glory, the true scene being Compton Dundon; half Somerset and the Mendips lie between the two villages. The story is told by Canon Newbolt, of St. Paul's, in his volume of reminiscences, called, I think, The Years that are Past. The Canon spent his early years in Somer- ton, to the north of which lies Compton Ihinckin, and the old man, after listening to his parish clergyman's description of the glories of the heavenly city, looked up and said, " All that be vary well for you, zur, but give of Compton- Dundon." Somerton, of course, is the old capital of the Sumorsaetas; Compton Dando is in the north of the county between Marks- bury and Keynsham.—I am, Sir, he., FRANK RICHARDS. Bath.
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