MEN OF WAUGH
SIR,—Mr. Carlisle's testimonial to Lord Noel- Buxton's sensitive scholarship and intrepid paddling would he more impressive if it did not appear in conjunction with that nobleman's own letter. Finding he has made an ass of himself, he turns on the lady whom he chose to escort, and publicly calls her a liar. Has Miss Spain no brother? Has the editor of the Daily Express no horse-whip?
But 1 am more concerned with my own narrow squeak. If I accept the unchivalrous repudiation and believe that the words which have caused so much innocent fun during the last three weeks—'I am not on business. I am a member of the House of Lords'—were invented and put into Lord Noel-Buxton's mouth by Miss Spain, I may ask : if this is how she treats an old and valued friend, what would she have done to me? What monstrous infelicities would she have fathered on her reluctant host, if I had let her in to dinner.— Yours faithfully,
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