27 FEBRUARY 1909, Page 17

A CORRECTION.

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR.") your issue of February 13th, reviewing a book on old and vanishing London, with views, published by Moring, you state that the old East India House in Leadenhall Street was ' burned clown in 1862. No fire ever occurred there. It was sold for ..£155,000, and pulled down.—I am, Sir, &c., HENRY R. GUY.

The "Central" Temperance Hotel, Penrilh, Cumberland.