26 MARCH 1881, Page 14

" LARRY LOHENGRIN."

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE SPEOTATOE,") SIR,—While acknowledging the substantial justice of the stric- tures on my novel, " Larry Lohengrin," contained in the Spec- tator of March 12th, by which I shall endeavour to profit, and thanking you for your cordial recognition of its merits, there is one point on which I should like, with your permission, to set your reviewer right. The faults of the story are entirely my own, and in no way due to the fact that it first saw the light in the columns of a newspaper, every line of it having been written before I had any thought of offering it for serial publication.- ] am, Sir, &c., WILLIAM -WESTA.LL.