31 AUGUST 1895, Page 16

ABSENT-MINDEDNESS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—An inscription in an Indian cemetery which records the assassination of a missionary by his chankidar (watch. man), concludes with the words, " Well done, thou good and faithful servant " !—I am, Sir, &c.,

Weybridge, August 26th. ARTHUR HARINGTON-