31 JANUARY 1903, Page 34

" SILAS TITUS COMBERBACKE."

pro THE EDITOR OF THZ " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—Perhaps it is by a slip of the pen that your reviewer of Mr. Gray's "Jesus College," in the Spectator of January 10th, speaks of the matured Coleridge as forgetting "the troubles of Silas Tomkins Comberbacke." It was as "Silas Titus Comberbacke " that Coleridge enlisted in the 15th Light Dragoons, returning to Cambridge after his discharge from the regiment in April, 1794. The Biblical names in combina- tion are whimsical enough, but the delicate, dreamy mind which produced " Christabel" and " Kubla Khan" would have been incapable of deliberately adopting the pseudonym of " Tomkins."—I am, Sir, &c.,

Harpsden Rectory, Henley-on-Thames. M. G. Nirrr.