A CABINET OF BUSINESS MEN.
[TO TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR; Bir. Robert Gardiner, in the Spectator of January 4th, is perfectly well aware that the instance quoted from my former letter to your paper of " the young man of thirty-five, director of an immense business," &c., was of an exceptional nature, and that it was by no means intended to supply a standard of capacity for the average young business man. However, I have not the least doubt that there are plenty of young men in business and under the age of forty who, without possess- ing precisely identical characteristics to that ideal " combina. tion of Whittington, Marlborough, and Absalom," might possibly cultivate a little more originality of conception and tenacity of purpose than have hitherto been conspicuous in that "Tittle garden of superior minds.'" " Qh—fye—'tis an nnweeded garden."—I am, Sir, &c., FRANK WHITBREAD.
12 Hans Place, S.W.
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