A HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT011.1 8I11,—In a review in the current Spectator of " A History of England," by C. R. L. Fletcher and Rudyard_Kipling, your reviewer says : " In some of his moods we are tempted to say of him what Walter Pater said of Norma Lisa, 'He fascinates and is intolerable.' In which of Walter Pater's books does he find this phrase P Certainly not in the essay on Lionardo in the volume of studies called "The Renaissance." I have always understood that the words were used by Rogers of Michelangelo's statue of Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, in the sacristy of San Lorenzo in Florence. Symonds, in his "Life of Michelangelo," gives the phrase as a quotation from Rogers (vol. ii., page 32. Macmillan, 1901). Your reviewer made the same mistake in a review of Monypenny's "Disraeli" some months ago.—I am, Sir, de.o., Frognal End, Hampstead, N. W. E. J. OGDEN.
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