12 FEBRUARY 1910, Page 18

" THE LOST LEGIONS. "

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Mr. Lloyd George says that be and his chief have been keeping out of one another's way. No wonder; but to-day they meet. A week or two ago you surmised that the first Cabinet would probably mean a mauvais quart d'heure for the Minister who by his Budget and his scurrility has brought down Mr. Asquith's true majority (Liberals over Unionists) from 205 at the Dissolution to 2 or nil, according as he- keeps or loses the Orkneys. Must not the premier recall to-day, if he does not repeat, the tragic words of Augustus after the disaster in the Teutoburger Wald, Quintili Vare,legiones redde (Suet. Aug. 26) P-1 am, Sir, &c.,

W. A. C.