16 APRIL 1910, Page 16

PROFESSOR FIRTH AND DR. GARDINER.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Six,-With reference to your remarks in the review in last week's Spectator of Professor Firth's " The Last Years of the Pro- tectorate" as to the work bringing " to a close the long 'History of England from the Accession of James I.,'" by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, and also later on with reference to your hope that "Professor Firth should continue Gardiner's task until it reaches its natural ending in the Restoration," we write to say that in the preface to his work Professor Firth says that he "hopes to continue the narrative down to the restoration of Charles II." This was apparently overlooked by your reviewer.—We are, Sir,