"EMINENT VICTORIANS."
[To vim Enrroa or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I think that readers of Mr. Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians would do well to bear in mind -that Arthur Hugh Clough gave time, strength, and money to try to rouse an inert British public to a realization of the fact that Florence Nightin- gale must be supported at all costs. In doing this he injured his health so seriously that when severe illness attacked him he was unable to withstand it, and died at the age of forty-two. This surely is not a subject for cheap caricature such as Mr. Strachey's remarks about " brown-paper parcels." Still less suitable is Clough's noble and unwearying search after truth, which might well be a matter for inspiration rather than ridicule.—I am, Sir, &c., A SINCERE ADMIRER OF A. H. CLOUGH.
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