3 APRIL 1897, Page 15

THE BATTLEFIELDS OF ENGLAND.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...] SIR,—Being myself of the Waller race, I naturally held to a detail of no great importance with which I had been familiar from my childhood. But as family traditions are frequently inaccurate, especially in local and baptismal names, and Mrs. De Salis has brought forward, in the Spectator of March 27th, so many credible witnesses, I feel myself bound in justice to yield to her superior knowledge, and to apologise to Mr. Barrett for my too hasty criticism. Our common descent from the same hero emboldens me to rely on Mrs. De Salis's forgiveness.—I am, Sir, &c.,

THE WRITER OF THE REVIEW IN QUESTION.