13 JANUARY 1872, page 12

Letters To The Editor.

BISHOP PATTESON.—IN MEMORIAM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?'] "If the poor savage that struck him down had known who and what he was, we believe he would rather have knelt......

W The Wit And Wisdom Of George Eliot. E Will Not

say that the writer who signs herself "George Eliot" is the only female humourist who has written in English, for there is much delicate and subtle humour in Miss Thackeray's......