25 JULY 1908, Page 17

A CORRECTION.

[To rim EDITOR OF TUB "EPBCFATOR.".1 SIR,—The line, "He comes too near that comes to be denied," attributed in your article, "Half-Truths and the Navy," in last week's Spectator to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, is not by her, though she quotes it in "Lines Written on a Window Pane." The author is Sir Thomas Overbury in his

poem, "A Wife."—I am, Sir, &c., J. M. S. [Noetra culpa.—En. Spectator.]