25 SEPTEMBER 1897, Page 14

SPANISH PROTESTANTS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

[To Tire EDITOR. OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIE,—With all due respect to your reviewer who favoured me with anoticeof my compiled translation of "Spanish Protestants in the Sixteenth Century," in the Spectator of September 11th, I think he was hardly right in saying I had "misspelt" llielanchthon, for misspelling argues ignorance, whereas using, as I did, the familiar English form of the name instead of the German is merely a matter of taste. Retaining the German text of one or two other names has not exempted me from the censure of my critics. Truly a translator's task is not an easy one.—I am, Sir, &c., RACHEL CHALLICE.