30 OCTOBER 1915, Page 18

AN EARLY ALLUSION TO PACIFICISTS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your contemporary the New York Nation, of the 14th inst. contains a letter from a correspondent in which the following passage occurs :— " I think I have discovered the earliest reference in literature to the ' Professional Pacificist,' It occurs in Ovid'a lament over his dead parrot, which he characterizes as follows : 'Non to torn bells movebas

Garrulus of Oneida* peels ametor erns.' —(Antores. IL, 0.)"

Can any of your readers "go one better" than this P—I am