" REQITIESCAT IN PACE."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I hope you will admit a brief reply to Canon MacOoll, who attacked me in the Spectator of December 2nd. He says, I" have failed completely in my attempt to refute the reasoning of your thoughtful article." I made no such attempt, but. distinctly disclaimed it. My objection to your article was directed, not to its general reasoning, but solely to what I still conceive to be its mistake about the use of the word "hope." Whether I am right or wrong cannot have the slightest effect upon the soundness of your general reasoning, which was no way founded or dependent upon that word.
This misconception of the Canon's vitiates the whole of his criticism of my letter, so I need not trespass upon you with any defence of my arguments or illustrations, which were excusably " irrelevant " to what they were not intended to
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