17 APRIL 1869, Page 16

DR. DONALDSON AND THE BOOK OF JASHER.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1

SIR,—In the notice of a recent occurrence at Southampton which appeared in last Saturday's Spectator there is a nerroneous statement which I ask your permission to correct, viz., that the publication of the book alluded to "cost Dr. Donaldson his headmastership of Bury School." This has been often before asserted, but this is entirely untrue. Not only did the Trustees of the school abstain from taking any notice whatever, in their official capacity, of the book in question, but his resignation was a purely voluntary act. I should not venture to speak so confidently on the subject, bad I not frequently heard it from his own lips.—I am, Sir, &c., F. N.