LACK-MINDEDNESS.
[To THE EDITOR OE THZ "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—I have lately come across another example of "lack- mindedness," as I would call it rather than "absent-minded- ness." A Berne newspaper contained the following prospectus of a hotel :—" —, in the Bernese Oberland, is the favourite place of resort for those who are fond of solitude. Persons in search of solitude are, in fact, constantly flocking there from the four quarters of the globe." I gather from my informant that this is either a copy or a translation of the prospectus. But I forbear to give the name of the favourite retreat, partly because I have not myself seen the advertisement, and partly for fear that many of your readers might be tempted to swell the crowd in that haunt of populous solitude. In my Harrow days it was reported that the very clever and kind-hearted, but irascible and sometimes inconsequent, Second Master (long since deceased) once called out to the boys in his form : "If one boy prompts another, the boy who prompts shall have ten times as many lines to write out as the boy who is prompted, and the boy who is prompted just the same."—I
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