16 DECEMBER 1905, Page 14

A CORRECTION.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your courteous notice of my book on "God's Image in Man" in last week's issue, the writer states that I "would bring down" the antiquity of man "to eight, or even seven, thousand years." This is a mistake. I point out that the civilisations in Babylonia and Egypt alone carry us back as far as this. While rejecting extreme measures of antiquity, I suggest a period for man's existence nearly twice as long (pp. 178-79, 186). I give my reasons.—I am, Sir, &c.,

JAMES ORE.