13 NOVEMBER 1897, Page 17

MR. TOM HUGHES.

[TO TIM EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

may not be uninteresting to place on record Tom Hughes' own words with reference to the character of Arthur in'Tom Brown." In reply to my query, he wrote :—" The character of Arthur was not drawn directly from Dean Stanley, but in several respects be might have sat for it."— I am, Sir, Ste.,