14 MARCH 1874, Page 13

THE WEST AND THE WISDOM OF THE EAST.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In your notice of "The Book of the Axe" you say, "Dr. Johnson, we believe, said 'The farther I go West, the more con- vinced I am that the Wise Men' came from the East." Allow me to remind you that the saying is attributed to (Ineen Eliza- beth, as having been made during one of her progresses westward,

— long before Johnson's time, of course.—I am, Sir, &c.,

JOHN RICHARDSON.

King's Standing, Burton-on-Trent, March 9.