15 JUNE 1912, Page 18

[To THIS EDITOR OT THE " SPROTATOR."] a review of

a book by Mrs. Fuller Maitland in 'our issue' of June lst'. the following sentence. is quoted : 4 My idea of a bore is 'a being whose utterances can always lie forecasted." Is not the participle "forecasted" a mon- strosity P I once came across it in manuscript—in a paper 'written by a very able man of business—but never before, I' think, in print. Gnomic saying' in the style affected by Mrs. Maitland ought surely to be models of verbal correct- ness. As alie evidently did not, when framing her definition Of a "bore, "forecast" any criticism of this kind, she will not, I am glad to think, regard this letter as proof that the Ibriter himself is a " bore" of the worst description.—I am,