21 FEBRUARY 1903, Page 16

PRAYERS FOR FINE WEATHER.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In the Spectator of February 14th your correspondent in his interesting letter upon this subject quotes from the Gifford Lectures of the late Sir G. G. Stokes. It may further interest your readers if you will allow me to call their attention to a note in Mr. Dykes Campbell's " Coleridge's Poetical Works," at p. 38, by Coleridge himself :—" I utterly recant the sentiment contained in the lines,—

' Of whose omniscient and all-spreading Love

Aught to implore were impotence of mind,' it being written in Scripture Ask, and it shall be given you,' and my human reason being moreover convinced of the propriety of offering petitions as well as thanksgivings to