To the Editor of the "NonrH-Cauwa DAILY News."
Sin—On the 9th instant you were good enough to publish some nes "To the Bamboo" sent to me up-country correspondent, and in my covering. letter I apologized for the appearance therein of a split infinitive. T have sine heard from the indignant author who asserts that had it not been pointed out no one would have: noticed it—he had not himself T hasten, therefore, to make pub-lie apology again—this time to him. In doing #0 I should like to qualify original reference to the subject 8 I certainly should never take the line of dictatorial denunciation of split infinitives in general. It {a well known that certain uses of them are permissible. It would be otherwise inconceivable that great men even such as secretaries of clubs should indulge in them. Certain it is, they do not attempt to hide them, rather do they blazon them forth, even, at times,.in bold red letters. All men, even the greatest sre possibly liable to err, but in this case is it likely?
This official indulgence, as far as} T am aware, applies only to prose: so far, it has not been my happy tot to. come eross any Verse able than any split one to wonder if he even knows how many grammatical horse beans mahs five.
I am, etc, Betwixt.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.