4 MAY 1901, Page 14

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Your correspondent, Mr. S.

H. Butcher, in the Spectator of April 27th, in giving Wordsworth's own explana-

tion of the lines- " Obstinate questionings

Of sense and outward things,

Fallings from us, vanishings "-

says that so far as he is aware, the poet's explanation has not found its way into print. I notice, however, that an edition of Wordsworth's works published by E. Moxon, Son,

and Co., 1882, VoL V., p. 103, contains a most interesting prefatory note to the Ode in which the poet explains his meaning on the lines of Mr•. Butcher's letter.—I am, Sir, &e., St. Peter's Rectory, 7 King Square, Bristol. F. C. PAUL.