13 JANUARY 1900, Page 16

MRS. GWYNN'S "BIRTHDAY BOOK."

[TO THE EDITOR OP TIIE "SPECTATOR."]

Ste,—In your review of "A Birthday Book," by Mrs. M. L. Gwynn, you say : "For the first time we have a book of daily quotations compiled by some one who knows what literature means." That sentence calls for protest, as it does a grave, though I am sere an unintentional, injustice to Mr. Bowyer Nichols's well-known table. book entitled "Words and Days" (Rivingtona) ; a book for which a daily custom of handling only increases the admiration of many lovers of literature,

including your obedient servant, H. C. BEECHING. Yattendon Rectory, .Newbury.

[We are glad of the correction. We should not have forgotten Mr. Nichols's charming "Words and Days."—ED. Spectator.]