DEAN STANLEY AND MITRES.
[To THE EDITOR, OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your correspondent, Mr. A. P. Martin, in the Spectator of November 4th, is nearly, though not quite, correct in supposing that the remark of the late Professor Jowett, apropos of Dean Stanley, is a quotation from Sterne. But by him it was quoted from "Don Quixote." In the twelfth chapter of the "Life of Tristram Shandy, Gent.," Yorick is made to say upon his deathbed : "I beseech thee take a view of my head Let me tell you that 'tis so bruised and misshaped with the blows which — and and some others have so unhandsomely given me in the dark, that I might say, with Sancho Panza, that should I recover, and mitres thereupon be suffered to rain down from heaven as thick as hail, not one o"em would fit it.' "—I am, Sir, &a.,
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