3 JANUARY 1920, Page 22

[To THE EDPPOR OP THE " SPEOTATOR."] SI14,—I am in

no position to say whethen..Lucan is read in our Public Schools now, but I remember reading the Pltarsalia in the Sixth Form at Repton in 1861 or 1862. This is impressed on my mind by the fact that William Sanday was going up to Oxford at that time to compete for a Balliol Scholarship. Before he went he left his prize composition in Greek verse for me to make a fair copy of it, and to show it up to our Head- Master with a distinguishing motto, Which he left me to choose. I selected a line from the Pharscaia, "Victriees aquilas aliem latexes in orbera." He was not best pleased by my choice, but Dr. Sanclay's career at Oxford proved the perfect appropriateness of the motto.—I am, Sit, &c., Southfield, Woodchester, Stroud. Cumber F. R. Ann x.