7 AUGUST 1897, Page 18

FAMILY MANNERS.

[TO VIZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sr,—Many years ago, when the facts were fresh, I was told that the well-known harmony in which the fivefold Edgeworth family lived together was made possible and maintained by the politeness of each to all the rest in their daily intercourse. And I am reminded of this by the passage on family manners in your entertaining notice in the Spectator of last Saturday of Mrs. Earle's interesting book, "Pot-pourri from a Surrey Garden." The youngest of that generation of the Edge- worth family was my college friend, and he combined Irish fire with English courtesy in a way which showed what a good school of politeness he had been brought up in.—I am,

Sir, &c., E. S.