16 FEBRUARY 1901, Page 14

THE PRAYER FOR THE KING'S ACCESSION.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] is evidence of the complete neglect, and even forget- fulness, into which the ordinary Accession Service has fallen of late years, that neither you nor Mr. Henry Fox should recognise the prayer which he criticised as forming part of it. The prayer was written, I believe, on the Accession of James II.; it has been used for all Sovereigns alike since Queen Anne. This does not make it less objectionable in style, but it makes Mr. Fox's excitement rather amusing.—I