A CHARGE OF PROFANITY
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SI IL —IL is really laughable to us Irish people when we learn from a Clergyman's letter in last week's Spectator that Misi K (E. Somerville has been, after a long and honourable career as a writer, deemed "profane" by the author of it !
Alas ! Another injustice to my country from a Saasenach, for he must be one or he would know that profanity and "N. (E. Somerville and Martin Ross (I can never dis- associate the two) are as far removed one from the other as the heavens from the earth. (Sure I wonder now is there touch of profanity in that last sentence ?) I am not a clergyman, but I would never call a slaughter of babes a -sacred subject. I have not, unfortunately, the pleasure of knowing Miss Somerville, but I have a strong knowledge of her books, and anything. less profane for readily, would indeed be hard to find. They are altogether delightful:
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