27 SEPTEMBER 1924, Page 12

A CORRECTION.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sta,—In reviewing anthologies in your last issue, Mr. Strachey surely slips in speaking of " Canon Beeching's great discovery of the sixteenth-century poem on the preparations for the coming of the King." The allusion can only be to the poem beginning :- " Yet if his Majesty our Sovereign Lord,"

which was found.by the late A. H. Bullen in an MS. at Christ Church, Oxford, and published by him in his famous collection of Lyrics from Elizabethan Song-books. It may be that Beeching's Paradise of English Poetry was the first anthology to extract it thence, but the honour was Bullen's.—I am; Sir, &c., FRANK SIDGWICK. 3 Adam Street, Adelphi, London, W.C. 2.