3 MAY 1902, Page 13

MR. CECIL RHODES.

[TO TUX EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."

that,—In your issue of March 29th the communicated article about the late Cecil Rhodes contains one error to which I venture to call attention. I do this not as criticism, but because of the historical interest of the correction. The writer of that article says that Mr. Rhodes "is the first sub- ject of the Crown to give his name as an official title to a portion of the Empire." William Penn, a subject, gave his name to Pennsylvania, an English Colony. It is true that Pennsylvania, after nearly a century as an English Colony, became a member of an independent Federation. Rhodesia may yet cemplete the paralle1.—I am, Sir, &c.,