19 APRIL 1884, Page 14

ANCIENT AND MODERN CHARITY.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—I must not appropriate the honour due to Mr. Reginald Stuart Poole, the originator of the plan of the lectures, and my adviser and helper throughout. The omission on which you remark will, I hope, be filled up another year, and come con- veniently after Greek and Roman charity. By a reference to- your advertising columns, the dates of the lectures will be'