15 JUNE 1907, Page 17

TORY MEMORIES.

MO TB. EDITOR Or TIM ..SPECTATOR..1 • Svn,—In your very friendly notice of my book bearing the above title in last week's Spectator there is one slight misstate- ment which, perhaps, it may be as well to correct. The writer of the letter about Free-trade with the Colonies was not Lord Salisbury, but Sir Stafford Northcote. I knew Crabbe pretty well at one time, but it is long since I read him, and none of the charactereyou mention dwell in my memory. Those intro- duced in "Our Village" were all personal acquaintances, and not suggested by anything outside. About the old-fashioned clergy I was only quoting Froude.—I am, Sir, &e., _ < T. E. KEBBEL.