3 SEPTEMBER 1904, Page 15

ENGLISH AS SPOKEN IN IRELAND.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] may perhaps be of interest to "C. M.," your corre- spondent of last week, to be reminded of the lines :— " nunc non e manibus illis

nunc non e tumulo fortunataque favilla nascentur violas ? "

—Persius, Satire I., 11. 38-40.

It is, of course, true that, in their original context, these lines were "writ sarkastic." That notwithstanding, it may be that they were present to Tennyson's mind when he wrote— "And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land."