10 AUGUST 1889, Page 15

AGE AND ITS DEFICIENCY IN EXPRESSIVENESS.

[To TEl EDITOR Ol THE " SPECTATOR:1

SIR,—I am an old man, and my experience agrees with the criticism on Wordsworth which you controvert. But of the "mental ventriloquism" which you take the poet to describe, I have no experience, nor can I recall or imagine a case in point. May I ask you to explain your argument farther, by an instance, if you think the matter worth discussion am,