17 DECEMBER 1948, Page 16

BOS WELL ON THE NORTHERN CIRCUIT

Sta,—In my letter to you on the above subject I confess that by a slip of the pen I wrote quaere by mistake for quare. Poor, however, as are both my latinity and my penmanship, I trust that I may be acquitted of having substituted larmnento for pavimento. Had Boswell on thae historic occasion at Lancaster Assizes applied for a writ of Quare Adhaesit Lammento the Bar, with this knowledge of his condition on the previous evening, would, I venture to think, have been even more astounded than was the Bench when he moved for the purely hypotheti- cal writ of Quare Adhaesit Pcrvimento—words which occur in the 25th verse of the 119th Psalm and which were singularly appropriate having regard to the nature of Boswell's eseapadc.—I am, Sir, yours