"FOREST OUTLAWS."
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."'
Sra,—Your reviewer concludes an appreciative notice of my book, "Forest Outlaws," by gibbeting as two careless mistakes, first, that I have made a boy anxious to kill a deer in May ;. secondly, that I have made the monks of St. Albans in the twelfth century say " Benedic nos," instead of " nobis." As to the former, may I reply that I found it the custom in those early times to hunt the roebuck from Easter to Michaelmas? It is so given in Stratt, and elsewhere. As to the latter, the accusative was almost always used with " benedico " in late and ecclesiastical Latin; further, I did not invent the Latin grects. it was actually in use as I had quoted it ; and lastly, if your reviewer ever dips into Walter Mapes or Giraldus Cambrensis, he will find that pure classical Latin was not much regarded in that age—if I may say so—of confounded speech.—I am,
Sir, &c., THE AUTHOR OF "FOREST OUTLAWS."
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