13 OCTOBER 1894, Page 31

"STRUWWELPETER."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SWEOTATOE."I SIR,—I have been wondering whether any one would venture to sound a discordant note in the chorus of praise that surrounds "Struwwelpeter." Am I alone in the world P I was not brought up on it (I still thank heaven for that msrcy), but I saw it once, when I was about seven, in the nursery of a friend, whither I had been bidden to tea. I only saw the picture of Peter, but I could eat no tea after. It raised a feeling of physical repulsion and horror, so vivid that the mere name of the book is enough to " give me a turn." My young remembrance cannot parallel a fellow to it, unless it he a picture in " The Three Wishes " of the old woman with the black-pudding hanging to her nose, which gave me many a bad