31 JANUARY 1914, Page 33

[To Tale EDITOR or TER •'EraCTATOL.")

SIE,—" Passive resistance" (Spectator, January 17th, p. 86)— " Here we are within the forbidden ground, without other impediment than the passive resistance of a heavy oak door, moving on rusty binges."—Kenilworth, chap. iii.—I am, Sir,

&c., E. [The instance given in the article is earlier than this- i.e., from The Heart of Midlothian, published three years before Kenilworth.—En. Spectator.]