23 JUNE 1888, Page 17

"CHILD-LIFE IN JAPAN."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,-It may interest some of your readers to know that this book, which the reviewer in the Spectator of June 16th attri- butes to Mr. Chaplin Ayrton, is by the late Mrs. Chaplin Ayrton, who was one of the first women medical students at Edinburgh, and afterwards graduated as M.D. at the Univer- sity of Paris. Mrs. Ayrton was for some years in Japan with her husband, Professor Ayrton, F.R.S., who held a professor- ship at the Imperial College of Engineering, Tokio, Japan, before he was appointed to his present position at the City and Guilds of London Institute.—I am, Sir, &c.,

ROLROYD CHAPLIN.

29 Palace Gardens Terrace, W., June 19th.