23 JUNE 1888, Page 16

CROMWELL'S SUCCESSES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " EFECTATOR.1

Six,—Your reviewer has forgotten his Carlyle when he says. that Cromwell stormed and captured every house he assaulted. Hewas repulsed from Farringdon by Roger Burgess,—" Loses fourteen men, with a captain taken prisoner; and draws away,. leaving Burgess to crow over him." (" Letters and Speeches," Vol. I., p. 227, second edition.)—I am, Sir, &c.,

W. K. GILL-

Eversley, Wimborne Road, Poole, June 16th.