24 OCTOBER 1908, Page 15

[To TRY EDITOR OP THZ "SPECTATOR." J Srs,—It is not

very wise for Miss Clara Dorothea Rackham (Spectator, October 17th) to bring the name of George Eliot into her challenge of Dr. Macphairs statements. It recalls to one's mind that lady's epigram: "There's nothing a woman does that a man can't do better, except bearing children, and that she does in a poor makeshift sort of way,"—perhaps the wittiest thing ever said by a woman.—I am, Sir, Sze..

H. F. K.