23 DECEMBER 1893, Page 16

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Perhaps the subjoined version

may help to put your correspondent on the track of the quatrain, "Arthur le Bower has broken his band." "Arthur le Bower" is as like " Articus Boreas" as "apple-pie" is to "cap-it-pie," or the nursery en- dearment "duck o' diamonds" is to "duo aux diamants."

"Articus Boreas broke his band, He came roaring up the land; Rex Scatiorunt,polius cum glortas, Cannot stop Arcticus Boreas I"

—I am, Sir, &c.,