31 JANUARY 1914, Page 34

"SAMPLERS AND TAPESTRY EMBROIDERIES."

[To Ts. EDITOR Or TIIR ..EFICTATOR...]

reference to your notice of the book entitled as above, may I venture to beg as much space in your columns as will enable me to say that the statement of my death made in the new preface to the cheaper edition of Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries is incorrect? I assisted Mr. Huish in the preparation of the original edition, and wrote the chapter en tire stitchery of samplers and needlework pictures, supply- ing the illustrations thereto from examples in my own collec- tion. These have been retained in the fresh issue, although my name has been eliminated from the title-page, where it formerly appeared with Mr. Huish's. Messrs. Longmana and Mr. Huish have apologized to me for the unfounded statement of my decease, and the former have given me to understand that they have caused correction slips to be inserted in all unsold copies, and also that they have drawn the attention of the editors of all periodicals and journals receiving review copies to the mistake, requesting them at the same time to refer to the error and its contradiction. Perhaps this intima- tion was overlooked in the case of your reviewer ?—I am,