24 MARCH 1900, Page 14

SUCCESS AS A CHARM.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] Sin,—Your correspondent, "A. A.," under the above title quotes the passage, " Careat successibus," as from Ovid's " Tristia" (Spectator, March 17th, p. 381). As a matter of fact, the source is Ovid, " Heroides," II. 85-6, in Phyllis's letter to Demophoon.—I am, Sir, &c., 62 Russell Square, London. WM. T. S. SONNENSCHEIN.