4 MAY 1907, Page 16

MRS. SELLAR AND HERBERT SPENCER.

rTO TUN EDITOR OP Taa .EPECTFATOTL1 SIE,—No doubt Mrs. Sellar knows the following story of Herbert Spencer, though she' does not mention it in her delightful book, reviewed in last week's Spectator: The " sage " when staying at a country house asked to be supplied with some whisky and water on turning in at night to re- establish the periodicity of my somniferous functions." His host said afterwards that be bad never heard a longer name for a " nightcap."—I am, Sir, &c., L.