4 JUNE 1937, Page 20

" WHAT SHADOWS," CRIED BURKE . . .

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue " occurs, as Dr. Childs says, in Burke's " Speech at Bristol on Declining the Poll," but Burke attributes them to the " worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes were as eager as ours." (One of his opponents had fallen down dead the day before.) Ballymoney, Co. Antrim.