22 JUNE 1872, Page 15

THE DEAN OF WESTMINSTER'S EDINBURGH LECTURES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:]

beg to thank my courteous critic for his letter. Having called his attention to a statement of fact, I need not follow him into matters of opinion which I have sufficiently discussed elsewhere. I will only repeat (in reference to his supposition that I could ' not have uttered anything so distasteful to a Scottish audience, except from ignorance of their strong feeling on the subject) what ' I have said in the preface to my " Lectures," " That it would have indicated a want of self-respect and of respect for those whom I was addressing if I had not touched, when required by the necessities of my argument, on their faults as well as on their