29 AUGUST 1896, Page 15

JOHN WOOLHAN, THE QUAKER.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'

owe Canon Ainger an apology. After detecting several errors in Mr. Horder's "Quaker Worthies" I should have been more cautions in accepting the misstatement which Mr. Ainger points out. For the moment I had forgotten the sound counsel of Dr. Routh to the young man who asked him for a piece of advice to carry him through life,—" Always verify quotations."—I am, Sir, 2tc.,

THE WRITER OF THE "SHORT NOTICE:'