30 SEPTEMBER 1899, Page 14

HASTINGS OF WOODLANDS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

SIR,—May I remind you that the description of our Dorset squire, Hastings of Woodlands, is from no less a pen than that of Antony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury ("Shaftesbury," H. D. Traill, p. 13) ?—I am, Sir, &c.,

Ecersley, Poole, September 25th. W. K. GILL.