15 DECEMBER 1906, Page 16

MR. BRIGHT'S SON • ON MR. TALLACK'S LETTER.

[TO•THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:]

SIR,—The attack made on a worthy and honourable man like Mr. Tallack induces me to write a few words. It is surelY going very far to impute untruthfulness to him. He was undoubtedly well known to my father, and the anecdote he tells seems to me to be both probable and harmless. Mrs. Fawcett's letter amazes me.—I am, Sir, &c.,

E*** Will the correspondent who submitted two MSS. entitled "In the Days of the Comet" and "The Art of the Greeks" kindly send his name and address, as his covering letter has been mislaid ?] •