17 MAY 1924, Page 14

THE LAST LAUREATE ?

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Your correspondent, Mr. Richard Jennings, is guilty of a curious lapsus calami in your issue of May 10th last when he states Byron makes fun of Pye in " The Vision of Judgment," which he (Mr. Jennings) terms the nineteenth- century Dunciad. The poem referred to should, of course, be the famous " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."—I am,