ICY HANDS
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My wife and I listened carefully to Sir John Simon's tribute to King Albert on Sunday last, and we both distinctly heard him say, " his icy hand," not " his icy hands." In his very next sentence Janus himself perpetrates one of those irritating journalistic errors which are all too frequent. The celebrated cartoon of March 10th, 1855—" General Fevrier Turned Traitor "—was not one of Tenniel's, though he drew the following cartoon of March 17th. " General }Wrier " was one of Leech's triumphs.—I am, Sir, &c., [Janus writes : A strange thing, for I myself " distinctly heard " Sir John say hands, and it is so printed in the reproduction of the Foreign Secretary's words in The Listener. As to General Fevrier, I was in fact uncertain as between Leech and Tenniel and was unable. to verify definitely before writing.]
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