9 JUNE 1894, Page 17

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE, — Apropos of the mistake

about the man borne of four, so amusingly described in your capital article in the Spectator of June 2nd, I have a fellow-story. A schoolfellow of my niece's when learning her Scripture one day—Mark ii. 3— exclaimed, "I can't think how any one could have had four mothers, but this man must have had, I suppose."—I am, Sir,