14 JUNE 1913, Page 17

A CORRECTION.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—May I beg you to be kind enough to correct a little mistake that occurs in the Spectator of June 7th, as it seems to imply what is perhaps a slander on Greece, Portugal, and Scotland P Your reviewer, in his notice of my article, " Sober by Abt of Parliament," in this month's Nineteenth Century, quotes me as saying that nowhere have I seen so much drunkenness as in Scandinavia, " save in Greece, Portugal, and Scotland." What I did say, however, is "Nowhere have I seen so much drunkenness as there " (i.e., in Scandinavia), " and I have stayed in Russia, in every country in Europe, in fact, excepting Greece, Portugal, and Scotland." With apologies for troubling you,—I am, Sir, &c.,