23 AUGUST 1902, Page 17

CHANGE OF AIR.

[To THE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR.'] Sra,—In the article on " Change of Air" in the Spectator of August 16th the writer says : " Jane Austen's people were content to migrate ' from the blue bed to the brown." Surely the quotation is in the first chapter and, I think, second para- graph of " The Vicar of Wakefield." Why is poor Oliver not to have the credit of this charming piece of humour P—I