22 OCTOBER 1904, Page 16

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Your issue of October

15th contains a friendly notice of my wife's book entitled " Diderot's Thoughts on Art and Style." It seems ungrateful to cavil at such a notice ; but I must protest on her behalf against the title of her book being metamorphosed by your reviewer into " Diderot's Thoughts on Heart and Style." The mistake is unlucky; for—to say nothing of my wife's habitual precision in regard to her aspirates—the writings of Diderot which deal with " affairs of the heart" are such as she did not care to translate.—I am, LIONEL A. TOLLEMACHE.

Hold d'Angleterre, Biarritz.