12 AUGUST 1899, Page 14

THE SIDNEY FAMILY.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] note that in your interesting review of "Memoirs of the Sidney Family," in the Spectator of August 5th, your critic has himself made a blunder, which certainly deserves correction. In his review he says : "There are not many families which have produced in three generations three men so distinguished as Sir Henry, Sir Philip, and Algernon Sidney." He, however, should have said "four," not" three," generations, for Algernon Sidney was a great-nephew of Sir Philip, and the intervening generation was represented by Robert, Earl of Leicester, a biography of whom is given in the "Memoirs."—I am, Sir, &c., E. G. D.