27 MAY 1893, Page 16

MISS BURNEY'S " EVELINI."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATO11,1 Sru.,—Will you allow me to correct a statement in your notice of my edition of the above (Spectator, May 20th) ? The reviewer remarks that I attributed Croker'e sarcasms about Miss Burney's age to Macaulay.

My only reference to the question was as follows :—" A good deal has been said about the age at which Miss Burney wrote Evelina,' and the subject, as everybody knows, became the occasion for one of Macaulay's most bitter philippics." The intention of this sentence was, of course, remind the reader of Macaulay's famous attack on Croker.