29 AUGUST 1914, Page 17

THE WHITE PAPER.

[TO THZ EDITOR Or 1HZ STECTATOH.1

SIR,—Many of your readers may be pleased to be reminded of Pope's lines complaining of a would-be poet's importunity

in asking the great poet's assistance in bringing out his rhymes:— " All my demurs but double hi i attacks ; At last he whispers, 'Do, and we go snacks.' Glad of a quarrel straight I clap the door,— Sir, let me see your works and you no more."

Perhaps the expression " glad " is too strong ; but Sir Edward Grey must surely have felt some relief from a painful