3 DECEMBER 1887, Page 21

MR. PRESTON'S JUBILEE OF GEORGE 111. [To TEE EDITOR OF

THE "SPECT770.:] your notices of new books on June 25th, you mention my book on the Georgian Jubilee, and an anonymous one published by Burapus. Though you give the palm to my book for "appearance," you say that "its rival gives some additional items,—an account, for instance, of the celebration at Bombay." I fear your reviewer has given a very cursory glance at the two books, or he would have seen that mine contains a full and accurate account of the Bombay festival ; and further, more than half the matter contained in my book is not contained in Bump's's. None of the official proclamations, brevets, and addresses included in mine are to be found in the book you favour, which, moreover, you have not quoted by the title on the