14 AUGUST 1909, Page 18

"A DEAD LANGUAGE ? "—A PERSONAL REQUEST. [To THE EDIT=

OF THE “Srsorsros.-.1 Sin,—May I ask the hospitality of your columns in the following matter? You kindly inserted a letter of mine in connexion with a poem entitled "A Dead Language?" An unknown friend wrote to me on the subject, with a request for information on Neo- Hellenic. Illness in my family and partial absence from home have, much to my annoyance and distress, caused the mislaying of his kind letter. Will you allow me to ask him, yid your columns, kindly to send me again his name and address ? I shall be only too happy to give him all information in my power. He is evidently a reader of the Spectator.—Thanking you in anticipa-