1 FEBRUARY 1890, Page 14

MR. WOLF AND THE CROSS-BILLS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Mr. Wolf's sole connection with the "true story" told of him by the writer of the article, "Bird-Painting at the Grosvenor Gallery," in your issue of January 25th, is thatlie illustrated it for his friend and mine, the late Mr. A. E. Knox, to whose "Autumns on the Spey," published in 1872, a litho- graph of the drawing forms the frontispiece ; while the inci- dent, which happened to Mr. Knox himself, is described with his usual felicity in pp. 32-36 of that interesting little volume.