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IT° THE EIHT01 or THE SPECTATOR...3 FIR,—I much doubt whether

Mr. Carr is correct in his explana- tion of Tennyson's rhyme of " thundered " with " hundred." At the time he write the poem " hundred " was always pronounced " hunderd," as many still do. It is analogous to the, common pronunciation of " twopence."-1 am, Sir, he., LATIMER. 155) Strand.