21 MARCH 1891, Page 14

CARSTARBS.

[To THE EDIrOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your reviewer, in his notice of "The Modern Church of Scotland," seems to do less than justice to Carstares, who. endured the frightful agony of the " improved " thumbkina "till the sweat of his agony poured over his brow,"—those- very thumbkins of which William III. said that "another tarn would make him confess anything." The whole story is too long to trouble you with, but may be read at length in Story's. William Carstares" (pp. 95 et seq.)—I am, Sir, Sze., Eversley, Wimborne Road, March 15th. W. K. GILL.