22 AUGUST 1896, Page 15

STUDIES IN MONASTICISM.

[To TER EDITOR OP THR "SPECTATOR."]

Sts.,—In a letter to you of May 30th I denied the authenticity of the nun Hrotswitha's comedies. I was contradicted by Mr. Wentworth Webster on June 20th. I am glad to find that he is right and I was wrong. I unfortunately did not put down the authority on which, years ago, I inserted to my own great disgust, in the margin of p. 108 of my own work on Deaconesses and Sisterhoods," the entry, "A literary im- posture," but can only say that it satisfied me at the time.—I am, Sir, &c.,