23 AUGUST 1879, Page 13

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR,"]

Sin,—May not the alteration in " A Dream of Fair Women," commented on in your last number, have been intended to hint at the other version of the Iphigenia legend,—namely, that she was suddenly transported to the Crimea, an d a victim substi- tuted in her place P The victim here would not be herself, but her substitute.—I am, Sir, &c., F. G. B,