27 FEBRUARY 1892, Page 18

" A SWEET GIRL-GRADUATE."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—I have to thank you for a very kind notice of my book, " A Sweet Girl-Graduate." I should like, however, to make a remark with regard to one point touched on by your reviewer. He is under the impression that the College which I have described is intended for Newnham, and speaks of certain details as being inaccurate. In writing the story, it was my wish to describe a College which could not be exactly identi- fied with any of those in existence. I visited Girton, Newnham, and Holloway, and the imaginary St. Benet's unites charac- teristics of all three. Electric bells, electric lighting, and a private chapel belong to Holloway College.—I am, Sir, &c.,

L. T. MEADE.