THE "FAMILY HERALD."
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sn,—May we call your attention to a paragraph on p. 100 of the Spectator, January 20th, referring to a novel by Mrs. Alice M. Diehl ? The writer of the paragraph, you will see, finishes up with this sentence :—" The book, though it is to a certain extent readable, seems to deal in the main with people who live in the world usually depicted in the Family Herald, and not on this everyday earth." This reference will doubt- less be read as an intentional disparagement of the Family Herald, and we shall be obliged, therefore, if you or the writer of the paragraph will do us the justice to explain particularly the difference between " the world usually depicted in the Family Herald" and the world novelists generally describe. It may be useful to us to know, and, as you have made use of the name of the Family Herald, we think we are entitled to ask for the explanation.—We are,
Sir, &c., WILT TAM STEVENS, Limited, Publishers of the Family Herald.
23-24 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C.
[By "the world usually depicted in the Family Herald" we meant a world where virtue and vice are rewarded with somewhat greater swiftness and certainty than in the every- day world, and also where the proportion of Duchesses and Dukes, Earls and Countesses, Lords and Baronets, to the rest of the population is very much larger than, let us say, in the world inhabited by reviewers. We made no comparison with " the world novelists generally describe."—ED. Spectator.]
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