HENRY K INGSLEY.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1
your notice of Messrs. Macmillan's " Catalogue,' you express surprise that Charles Kingsley's novels should have been reprinted more frequently than Henry Kingsley's- " Ravenshoe" and " Geoffrey Hamlyn ; " but is not the true explanation this, that Henry's stories early attained such a popularity that they were reproduced in the two-shilling picture-board style by different publishers,—Messrs. Ward and Lock and Chapman and Hall, who certainly republished " Geoffrey Hamlyn " ?
I should have said not only that Henry's " Ravenshoe" had ten readers for every one of, say, " Two Years Ago," but that, as a novel per se, it was superior to any of Charles's.—I am, Sir, &c., Eversley, Poole, November 2nd. W. K. GILL. [That is our correspondent's criticism, of course, not ours. " Ravenshoe" is an excessively clever muddle.—En. Spectator.]
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