3 APRIL 1915, Page 15

"THE GREAT AGE."

[TO rat EDITOR Or 717.. "Srmcreeoz."]

S/3,—Your reviewer of "The Great Age" in the Spectator of March 20th refers to" a famous Limerick " as follows: "They are enough to have made the late Mr. Spedding 'tear up his bedding' and commit the other atrocities attributed to him," I cannot refrain from quoting the whole of the impromptu by Thaekeray on Mr. Spedding as I remember hearing it, more than fifty years ago "There was an old fellow called Spedding Who chopped up cigars for his bedding,

His head was so bare That It made folks declare

That he danced at his grandmother's wedding," —I am, Sir, de., AILEEN ARTHUR. The Well House, Banstead, Surrey.