28 AUGUST 1909, Page 17

A MISQUOTATION.

[To van Norma OF TIM " SFBCTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue of July 24th, answering (otherwise admirably) Mr. Andrew Carnegie, you have omitted from your quotation from General Grant the pith of his statement. What the General said was "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." (See Rhodes's "History of the United States," Vol. IV.,