24 MAY 1902, Page 14

(To TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOIL1

— A propos of the letter on " Personality " in the Spectator of May 10th, a story is told of Benjamin Franklin by himself that when a child Ile pushed his head through the bars of a railing, and could not withdraw it until a blacksmith came to his rescue. While he was thus a prisoner he wondered much on which side of the railing he was, reflecting that his head, the thinking part as he knew, was on one side, but the larger and heavier part on the other.—I am, Sir, &c.,

R. T. M.