2 DECEMBER 1911, Page 35

GOLFERS' LANGUAGE.

lT0 ma EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Supplement to your issue of November 18th you are grateful to Mr. Maio for his application to golfers of the 'Virgilian Miseuerunique herbal et non. inswxia verba. May I point out that he had, been forestalled ? See Mr. Platt's

Byways in the Classics " (1905), p, 37, where it is said to have been " communicated by Mr. A. Douglas Thorburn."—I am,