WHO WAS IN SAMARKAND? ,
[To the Bditor of Tilg SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In her discussion with Mr. Peter Fleming as to which, if either; of them hitcl spent forty-eight hours in Samarkand, Miss Ethel Marann says : "When writing the book I was anxious to discover who had been to Samarkand." It is not surprising, of course, that I should have escaped Miss Mannin's - notice, but perhaps I may be permitted, even at this late hour, to tell her that .Chapter XXI of my book, "All the Russias,"., is given to Samarkand, and contains fourteen of my own photographs of the city, of which I there said : "After Athens, Rome and Constantinople, I should rank Samarkand as the most interesting city in the world." My book, I should add, is now procurable only at a library, as its last edition has been out of print for years.—Youis obediently,
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