16 FEBRUARY 1901, Page 14

A CORRECTION.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Allow me to correct a serious clerical error in my letter which you published in your last issue. I intended to criticise the language of the prayer for King Edward VII. (as authorised by the Archbishop of Canterbury) as being language of "ser- vile " adulation. You printed this " senile" adulation, which made it an attack not only on the language of the prayer, but also on the person of the Archbishop. This I never intended. I had no intention of being disrespectful to the Archbishop, but only to criticise the form of prayer which he authorised.