10 FEBRUARY 1900, Page 14

MR. A. BECKETT'S NEW BOOK.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE esescreiroa."] SIR,—As your reviewer calls in question my right to entitle my latest published book "London at the End of the Century," will you permit me to quote from the preface ?— " This little volume pretends to be no more than a book of gossip. I have attempted, as a Londoner following a career necessitating the playing of many parts, to give some sketches of the great Metropolis as I know it at the end of the century.

I have tried to give a picture of London and Londoners as they exist." That I have succeeded in my not very ambitious object has been admitted in the most kindly and sympathetic terms by all the reviewers who have hitherto been my judges.—I am, Sir, etc.,

The Garrick Club. ARTHUR WILLIAM I BECKETT.