THE LATE DR. EDWIN A. ABBOTT
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sins—While desiring to express my gratitude to Mr. Brockle, hurst for his letter appearing in your issue of October 30th, may I venture to remove a possible cause of misunderstand- ing ? Some readers of Mr. Brocklehurst's letter have inferred that the passage quoted by him from Silaatus the Christian contained my father's own words, whereas it is really his translation of a passage in Epictetus.
This would be quite clear to readers of the book in question, where my father has stated that " the utterances assigned to Epictetus are taken from the records of his sayings by Anise or others. Some of them have been freely translated, para- phrased, or transposed, but none of them are imaginary." I am sure that my father would have wished to " render unto Epictetus the things that are of Epictetus " ; therefore I venture to trouble you with this letter.—I am, Sir, &e., MARY Annerrr. Wellside, Well Walk, Hampstead.
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