LACEDÆMONIAN BLACK BROTH

If your readers are not already as much disgusted with Spartan Black Broth as Dionysius was with the first mouthful, I beg leave to submit a few supplementary words to the copious indications of your correspondents "R.O." and "W." Selden says:— "It was an excellent question of Lady Cotton, when Sir Robert Cotton was magnifying of a shoe, which was Moses's or Noah's, and wondering at the strange shape and fashion of it: 'But, Mr. Cotton,' says she, '*are you sure it is a shoe?*'" Now, from the following passage in Manso's *Sparta*, it would seem that a similar question might be put on the prese…