11 JANUARY 1902, Page 16

A CORRECTION.

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—In the interests of accuracy, permission is solicited to correct a statement made by a correspondent in the Spectator of November 78th impugning the correctness of the author of the Life of Hodson in attributing certain lines therein quoted to Sir H. Mortimer Durand. " Attar Sing " was written by. Mr. (now Sir) Mortimer Durand. The lines were published in the Pioneer in 1880, when he was a member of the Indian Civil Service. The reference to Hodson was, I believe, based on a description given by his comrade, the late Colonel Sir Charles MacGregor.—I am, Sir, &e.,

J. H. R.-C.