1 OCTOBER 1904, Page 31

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'i

Sin,—..& little time ago you treated your readers to a delight- ful chapter of mixed metaphors. As a lover of a good joke in any form, I send you the latest specimen of the mixed meta- phor class ; it was coined at a meeting of shareholders held in London on Wednesday week. "S— has gone through a long period of depression, and we are not out of the wood yet ; but I believe bed-rock has been touched, and although the turning- point may not at the moment be in great prominence, it cannot be far off." The speaker may himself have been equal to the task of realising the series of pictures suggested by his words, but one feels sure his audience failed to keep pace with am, Sir, &c., W. E. MCFARLANE. Heath, Chesterfield.