27 OCTOBER 1917, Page 14

POETRY IN THE AIR.

Pro ram Burros or THE " grzormes."1 Srs,—The lamentable errors in the quotation from Cattalos were not due, as the editor kindly suggests, to the excitement caused by the expectation of an attack in the air, but from the air; nor DRS the deafening noise of the airman's engine a factor in this catastrophe, but the roar of our own barrage. The letter was copied during the raid on September 30th, and on that date there were more reasons for "a scholar's blood to run cold" than the misquotation of a few lines from Catullus.—I ant, Sir, Ito, "Tres GALLANT ADMAN'S " BROTHER.