29 NOVEMBER 1902, Page 14

[TO THE EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—A propos of the Greek controversy, I cannot forbear to send you this shrewd remark which I came on the other day in a collection of family papers. Some of the family, the writer says, were skilled in the classics and some "in their own mother tongue (in which last the Ancients wrote those works for which they are now so much revered)." Though a partisan of " the Ancients " myself, I think this must be recognised as " a very palpable hit."—I am, Sir, &c.,

W. M.