• CASTLEREAGH AND BULWER LYTTON
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Absence abroad accounts for my reading a small batch of Spectators together, and so I read the reviews of Professor Webster's Castlereagh and Mr. Sadleir's Ruhver at the same sitting. Afterwards by chance I took up the volume including
Lytton's " St. Stephen's " and read :
" . . . Mysterious CASTLEREAGH ! They much, in truth, misjudge him, who explain His graceless language by a witless brain. . . And much in him, as Time shall melt away The mists which dim all names too near our day, Shall stand forth large : . . ."
No doubt Professor Webster has not overlooked this—for that day—remarkable prophecy ; while it seems to me that
in The New Timon " and other poems there is full justifica- tion for what Mr. Kellett (your reviewer) says, supporting Mr. Sadleir's view, as to the essential " earnestness " of Shepherds Hill House, -Harefield, near Uxbridge.
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