1 AUGUST 1914, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OF TH1 "SPECTATOE."] SIR, — Your habit of clear

thinking led you last week to an exhaustive definition of the conditions which should obtain in the choice of a motto for London. These are that such a motto should be at once oracular, spiritual, inspiring, dignified, and intelligible. In addition, it seems to be now accepted that the motto shall be English. I am not aware if the following has been suggested by any correspondent ; but it seems to me to embody all those six conditions in the simplest possible formula, videlicet, " Onward and Upward."—I am, Sir, &c., H. T. ANSTRUTHER,

Late Alderman London County Council.

9 Little College Street, Westminster.