• MINOR PLEASURES
[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To be reviewed by Miss Macaulay is certainly one of the minor pleasures of life, and we do not begrudge her the satis- faction of detecting those slips which survived our proof- reading, distressing though they are to ourselves. But surely the father of Disraeli, guilty no doubt of modernized spelling elsewhere, preferred to sign himself Isaac d'Israeli. Surely, too, the source of our Fletcher-Shakespeare extract should have been obvious to her. How The Maid's Tragedy was attracted to it in the index, haw Nicholas Hookes on page 97 acquired later the name of Nathaniel, how a sin (a very small one) of the father Lytton came to be visited upon the son—to explain these mishaps might entertain Miss Macaulay as an anthologist, if not satisfy her as a critic—unless she will accept fatigue as a better excuse than ignorance.—Your obedient servants, C. C. and D. G.
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