A JOURNEY TO NATURE."
pro lam Enrroa OF VIE ..8EacrraTox."9 Son,—A review appeared in your columns last week of a book called A Journey to Nature. It is not stated that the book is an old one or whether it is a revised edition; but I read a book that appears to be identical issued in 1901 by the same publishers, Messrs. Doubleday, Page, and Co., in America, and Messrs. Constable and Co. in England. There are full notes on it in both the first edition (1903) and the second (1914) of my Guide to the Beat Fiction. Surely readers of a long and interesting review such as this ought lobe informed that the book ie fourteen years old.—I am, Sir, ire.. informed that the book was a reissue had the editor, the reviewer, or the proof-reader recognized the fact. The fact that the book is a reissue does not appear on the title- page—on which is prinked the date 1914—but only, according to an inconvenient if common practice, on a page easily over- looked by a reviewer possessed by the idea that he has got a new book in hand. We regret our blunder, but such mistakes will happen occasionally in spite of the utmost vigilance.—En. Spectator.]
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