5 SEPTEMBER 1925, Page 15

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sut,—Here is a confirmation

of the statement of your corm- .

spondent, " A." Several years ago an elderly gentleman took a party of 'friends to see some excavations on a Roman site in private property. The visitors partook of a somewhat

sumptuous lunch in picnic fashion and on their departure left many sheets of paper to be collected. But no doubt it was by inadvertence that they likewise left , amongst the litter two table-napkins which identified the owner as a well-known London .M.P., whose name I enclose.—I am,

Sir, &c., J. C. S. [The " London M.P." need not fear that we shall reveal his name—unless, of course, he does it again.—En. Spectator.]