26 APRIL 1919, Page 15

THE DEATH OF TURNUS.

(To ma Emma or rat " larecrcroa."1 Stn.—Your reviewer seems to forget that the last line of the Aeneid is a repeat from XI. 631 (death of Camilla), on which Conington quotes Servius that the latter, like Turnus, dies young, and so unwillingly, and refers to II. XVI. avvea-are

yielietra, Jura? &Teri= sat repeated of Hector in D. XXII. 363. The "wrong cause" may apply to Turnus, but hardly to the other cases. But your artiole sent to his Virgil a "Dispensable"" on two days' holiday, and he is intensely grateful to you for both the Topical article and the review.—I