24 JULY 1915, Page 16

A CORRECTION.

[To TIM EDITOR or THE “SPECTATOR."] SIR, —I think the gentleman who quotes from Dr. Watts's world-known hymn on the first page of last week's impression should have looked for it in almost any hymn-book. The first line is "There is a land of pure delight." The verse to

which he refers is

" But timorous mortals start and shrink

To cross this narrow sea

They linger shivering on the brink And fear to launch away."

Was it not allowable in the time of Dr. Watts to pronounce the word "sea" as " say " ? In the Lancashire dialect it is so now. So that even the rhymes would be perfect then.—I am,

Sir, &c., J. W. Woop. The Athena um, Bury, Lancashire.