15 MAY 1909, Page 19

A CURIOUS BLUNDER.

[To Tins EDITOR OP TRS " BPROTATOlt."] Sin,—When your correspondent " Senex " (Spectator, May 8th) draws. attention to the quaint blunder of the Quarterly Reviewer who suggested that Melissa's daffodil College gown was chosen to match her mother's hair, he omits to mention that a little further on Lady Blanche's "autumn tresses" are

described as " falsely brown."—I am, Sir, &c., D. T.