13 MAY 1905, Page 16

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " spsciveron:1

Srn,—Allow me to thank you for the kindly notice of my book on our "National Bibliography" which appeared in your impression of April 22nd, when I was away from London. With your remark that omissions are inevitable in such a work, no one is more in agreement than its author. Your example of an omission is not, however, selected with your usual felicity. The volume on "classical books," to which you refer as wanting, is duly entered under "classical learning," and correctly indexed. But it is the composition of Mr. J. B. Mayor, and not of his brother, Mr. J. E. B. Mayor, to whom you have assigned it.—I am, Sir, (ice., W. P. COURTNEY.

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