20 FEBRUARY 1904, Page 16

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIB.,—Your reviewer's story in the Spectator of February 13th, p. 262, of " Why, she doesn't know that she has a husband!" reminds me of a remark made to myself not long ago. A poor woman in this parish was consulting me in connection with her domestic troubles, and there was some doubt as to whether her marriage was a legal one, inasmuch as her " husband" (as she had just discovered) appeared to have a wife living, from whom he had been separated. The woman's pathetic inquiry was : " If he is not my husband, what right has he to knock me about ? "—I am, Sir, &c., PRESBYTER DUNELMENSIS.