25 APRIL 1908, Page 31

"TO" OR " BY" P [To THE EDITOR OF THE

" SPECTATOR." J SIR,—I am not sure whether the reviewers have noticed a curious slip in Mr. Dasent's "Life of Delane " a propos of the plan proposed by Benedetti to Bismarck for the conquest of Belgium by France. The writer says (Vol. II., p. 266) :—"A sensation scarcely, if at all, inferior to the formal declaration of war was produced on the public mind by the disclosure in The Times of the terms of a projected treaty which had been offered to France by Prussia." Of course, France offered this Treaty to Prussia, not vice versa, and the prepositions

should be transposed. —I am, Sir, &c., J. D. R.