29 AUGUST 1896, Page 14

EPISCOPAL BICYCLISTS.

THR EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR"]

SIR,—In reference to your plea as to the suitability of the clerical garb for riding it has often struck me that church dignitaries and coachmen are the only two classes that still wear that becoming eighteenth-century costume—with the comical result that there is a suggestion of something sporting in the aspect of a clergyman and of something clerical in the aspect of a well-got-up coachman. The latter gets the benefit of the chance analogy by looking overwhelmingly