27 AUGUST 1921, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OP Taa " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —A quotation

from the Revue des Deux Mondes, 15 Juillet, 1867 (p. 350), is germane to Mr. Blakeney's note on " Favourite Words ": " On a remarque que tout ecrivain a son mot favort„ qui revient constamment sous sa plume. Dans telle page de Bossuet on trouve jusqu'h Sept foie he mot grand; noble 6tait cher It Buffon. Immense etait le mot do Prosper [Randoce]." I have often thought that the adjective ragus was very charac- teristic of Catullus, and the noun predisposition equally so of