1 JULY 1922, Page 23

CASSANDRA.

[To eini EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The accuracy of the Spectator is almost unimpeachable, but it is recorded that even Homer nods sometimes, se I need not stand aghast at your reference in last week's issue on the outlook in Ireland to " forebodings as being like the prophecies of Cassandra, predestined never to come true." Surely the curse laid on her was that her prophecies should never be believed, not that they were not true.—I am, Sir, &c., T. PLUME GANDELL.

Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, S.W. 1.