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LTO THE EDITOR OP THE "Srscre-ros."] "SIR,—I was much amused

by the Greek epigram that appeared in the Spectator last week. The policy of taxing

ungotten " minerals further recalls the task assigned by Milton to Mammon :—

"By him first

Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransacked the centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their Mother Earth For treasures better hid."

—"Paradise Lost," I., 684.

Alleyne's Grammar School, Stone, Staffs.