5 DECEMBER 1931, Page 16

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Snt,—" Things," thought he

of Houndsditch, " is come to a pretty pass," as Calverley's friend Sikes remarked when the Spectator (!!!) perpetrates " all the data is available " on page 660 towards the end of the second note, and another paper in the same week announces that " a sedilia was dedicated."

It only remains for both of you to declare that " the agenda is complete."—I am, Sir, &c., W. H. A. COWELL. St. Edward's School, Oxford.

[Both data and agenda in normal usage often take a singular rather than a plural verb, plurals though they be in the original Latin.—En. Spectator.]