26 JULY 1884, Page 16

ENGLAND UNDER MR, GLADSTONE, 1880-1884.- [To THE EDITOR OF THE

"SPECTATOR."] SIB,—In your review of Mr. McCarthy's "England Under Mr. Gladstone, 1880-1884," you express surprise that the "writer imagines George Warrington to be a last-century character." George Warrington, who is the hero of "The Virginians," and a far more important personage than his grandson in "Pen- dennis," was the friend of Oliver Goldsmith and Samuel John- son, and his younger brother smarted at Tunbridge Wells under the "courtly slanders of Lord Chesterfield."—I am, Sir, &c., [The mistake was ours ; but the mistake of supposing that George Warrington, or any other character in "The Vir- ginians,' was a far more important person than George War- rington in " Pendennis," is the writer's.—En. Spectator.]