14 FEBRUARY 1880, Page 15

MR. FOSTER'S "PEERAGE"

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

course it is not your practice to take notice of replies to reviews of books appearing in your columns, but there is one statement of the notice in Mr. Foster's new " Peerage," in your number of this day,—viz., that this work is not " intended to renew its appearance year by year, like other Peerages," of which we think we are entitled to request that you will publish a con- tradiction in your next. It is intended to publish an annual edition, and the editor will thankfully avail himself of the opportunity of the publication of the next edition to correct the mistakes pointed out by your reviewer, so far as they are Mr. Foster's, and not the reviewer's own errors.—We are,