(TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—Your correspondent W.
G. Ruehbrooke I fancied might be a parson as he dates from St. Olave's, Tower Bridge. As his name is not in the Clergy List I am mistaken. May I challenge him on advertisements, especially as they are largely literary? He is old, so am I, and let me call to mind the grand old literary paper the Athenaeum of fifty or sixty years ago, with its com- pact columns of criticisms and its excellent advertisements of the literature of the day. Why, neither the Athenaeum nor the Spectator would have been acceptable to us if the advertise- ments were missing I As for quoting the New Age and its "Orageism," if I may put it that way, that is a thing apart with a special clientele. The Spectator is, at any rate to many, a household word—though perhaps, say, its trend on religious matters is not on the late Mr. Hutton's lines. More power to your literary advertisements, say I.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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