30 SEPTEMBER 1916, Page 13

THE HERMIT OF PRAGUE.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In a paragraph in your paper of last week you remark that the hermit of Prague in Twelfth Night " very wittily " said : " That that is is." A favourite expression of my Dorset gardener is : " There 'tis and can't be 'tiser ! " which seems to me on a par with the hermit's