22 JUNE 1872, Page 15

THE CHESTERFIELD LETTERS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

Stu,—In your article this day upon the Chesterfield Correspondence, you refer to "the early letters of Lord Chesterfield, addressed to his son when seven or eight years old, a great number of which are omitted in Lord Mahon's edition." Allow me to say that this is not strictly accurate. The letters in question, which you go on truly to describe as " easy lessons in history and mythology," were not altogether omitted by me, but consigned to an appendix in small type. They will be found in vol. v., pp. 475-528.-1 am,