edition of "Men of the Time" (1872) is under the
head " Maxwell." So is the account of himself and his family which appeared last year in Burke's "Peerage and Baronetage." In the "Post-Office London Directory " for the present year his name and address occur under the word "Maxwell." You, Sir, are usually the pink of accuracy, yet, in your allusion to the recent election in Perthshire two or three weeks ago, you actually lay hold of the first half of Sir William's surname, metamorphose it into a Christian name, and call the baronet "Sir Stirling Max- well." And in the Times of last week, in the list of new M.P.'s, I find entered, "Maxwell, William Stirling."
It is only right to add that both in "Hansard's Parliamentary Debates" and in the "British Museum Library Catalogue" the fact of Sir William's surname being a compound word—as clearly proven by the manner in which it is printed on the title-pages of the various works published by him since 1866—is fully recog- nised, and the name proper given under the letter " S."—I am,
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