21 SEPTEMBER 1867, Page 3

A correspondent, " Viator,". writes to us to remove an

impres- sion which he thinks may be produced by a .statement of our rather flighty correspondent, " A Wife on Her Travels," with respect to a particular inn at Bale. That vivacious lady had remarked that, " as we had recently heard that the attendance at the principal Rhine inn had lately become bad and supercilious, Edward had taken me " elsewhere. Our present correspondent Asserts that this will certainly be taken to refer to the "Three Kings" at Bile,—Alice Vavasour's inn, we believe, in Can You Forgive Her?—rand would be a very mistaken notion indeed. He has been there twice this season, and he was more than satisfied—he is enthusiastic—on its merits. Indeed, he asserts that though he "is quite a poor man, drinks scarcely any wine, indulges in no extras, speaks neither French nor German," and (he must excuse us here at last for incredulity) " dresses shabbily," be was treated with the utmost consideration, charged moderately, and delighted with his host and hostess. Even if our fair correspondent had herself depreciated any inn, instead of merely reporting on the on dit of others, we should prefer such testimony as this to her alert, but we fear unsound, judgment. But who shall ever know to what hotel,—or " if indeed there be at all any real entity" to which,—she referred?