17 JANUARY 1903, Page 18

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS.

[To TUB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1

SIE,—Dr. Rowland Williams, in the height of the hubbub against "Essays and Reviews," visited Norwich. To a friend of mine who condoled with him on the obloquy he had incurred, and on the loss of a promised deanery, he calmly replied : "We counted the cost." The use of " we " shows, like the interesting statement of Dr. Temple given by your correspondent, that the writers acted in concert as far as agreeing to express advanced ideas was concerned. Dr. Temple having been the last survivor of the group, I presume that in seven years it will be open to any publisher to reprint