20 JULY 1901, Page 15

THE BATTLE OF FONTENOY.

pro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIE,—The legend of Lord Charles Hay and the Count d'Anteroche, quoted in your review of "The Military Life of Field-Marshal George, First Marquess Townshend," in the Spectator of July 13th, was finally disposed of by Carlyle in his "Frederick the Great," Book XV., Chap. 8. He there gives the true story on the unimpeachable authority of Lord Charles Hay himself, and explains very well the probable genesis of the legend.

H. W. L.