5 OCTOBER 1889, Page 16

" 0.IT.R. BOOKS."

[To THE EDITOR OP THE ". SPECTATOR."]

thanking you very heartily for your appreciative notice of the opening volume of my little series—Mr. Alfred Fitzmaurice King's Irish story, " A Change of Clothes "- may I be permitted to say that the series itself is styled, not " Our Books," but " O.U.R. Books "P The modest alphabetical pleasantry of the title is, apparently, far more recondite than I had at all imagined. Printers and reviewers, almost with one accord, in suppressing the full stop after the " 0." and the " U.," have applied it to the joke, and in leaving out the points of the title, have left out the point.—I am, Sir, &c.,

THE EDITOR OF THE SERIES.