THREE CENTURIES OF MODERN HISTORY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.']
Sut,—I do not feel sure that I am justified in addressing you, but I hope you will excuse me for doing so, since I am desirous to- stand well with the critics in your paper, which, as a general rule, contains, I think, better criticism on literary works than any other London paper ; and therefore I hope you will allow me to say that in the sentence of my book (" Three Centuries of Modern History ") of which the writer of the notice complains, the word.
whom," in which the difficulty lies, is a misprint for "where." The reviewer calls it a "labyrinth of anacolutha ;" it seems to me that the misprint has made the sentence unintelligible altogether.
The errata in the book are so numerous, I am sorry to say ,(though I corrected scores, if not hundreds), that I have had a fresh slip of errata published, of which I beg permission to enclose you a copy.- –I am, Sir, &c.,
Notting Hill, Belfast, Tune 5, 1872. C. D. YONGE.
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