29 OCTOBER 1898, Page 18

BLOODHOUNDS:

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...1

Sin,—In your able article on the above subject in the Spectator of October 8th you omit to mention that hounds were used by Isis to search for the body of her husband Osiris, and being successful in finding it, were ever after worshipped by the Egyptians,—as the god Anubis, called "latrator," the Barker.—I am, Sir, &c., F. A. MORGA.N.