2 AUGUST 1884, Page 20

A CORRECTION.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

'Slit,—While thanking your reviewer for his kindly notice of my book "Di Fawcett," and confessing to a certain amount of nebulosity on matters ecclesiastical (a nebulosity in which possibly I am kept in countenance by many educated English ecclesiastics themselves), may I be allowed to state that with regard to the "ecclesiastical position" of my "Dean," there is no room for nebulosity on the part of either reviewer or reader, for it is expressly stated (Vol. II., p.112) "that he was not really a Dean," but was so nicknamed when a boy at school, on account of his fondness for sermonising.—I am, Sir, &c.,