THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC.'
[TO TIIR EDITOR Or The "SFROTATOR."
SIR,—The following quotation from De Quincey's "Opium Eater" needs no comment :— " Then came sudden alarms ; hurryings to and fro ; trepidation of innumerable fugitives . . darkness and lights, tempest and human faces; and at last with a sense that all was lost female forms; and the features that were all the world to rue, and but n moment allowed—and clasped hands ; with heart-breaking part- ings and then everlasting farewells I And with a sigh such as the caves of hell sighed when the incestuous mother uttered the abhorred name of death, the sound was reverberated—everlasting farewells ! And again and yet again reverberated—everlasting farewells!
And I awoke in struggles and cried aloud, I will sleep no more I'"
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