15 DECEMBER 1900, Page 14

MR. HARE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —You quote a story from Mr. Hare's autobiography (Spectator, December 1st), in which two brothers sleep in a room with a corpse, but such was their caution or taciturnity that neither mentioned it for some time, and then only casually. This is attributed to Lord Carlisle and his brother, which is not only a mistake but is uncharacteristic of the family. The really interesting fact is that the story is told by both the Russells and the Cavendishes of their own family, and with probability in either case, as the story suits either the policy of Cavendo tutus or the fatalism of Che