1 APRIL 1905, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—You refer in the Spectator of March 25th to a "defiance like that of the immortal Mr. Jefferson Brick, which defied everybody and yet hurt nobody." Surely Mr. Brick's fame is sufficiently established as war correspondent and leader- 'writer of the Rowdy Journal without your claiming for Lim the celebrated 0-ration in which the world was defied by the Honourable Elijah Pogrom, whose self-written epitaph is : "He was a member of the Con-gress of our common country, tuid ac-tive in his trust."—I am, Sir, &c.,

Wayside, Elf ham. ALFRED LAURENCE FELKIN.

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