" MARIE-CLAIRE."
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of December 31st, 1910, I read a review of Madame Marguerite Audoux's book. On December 13th I received a letter from my friend M. Louis Pergaud telling me that the Prix Goncourt had been awarded to his book, "De Goupil a Margot." Either there is a mistake in the account you give of Madame Marguerite Audonx's book, or else two prizes must have been awarded. I should be thankful to you if you would kindly make
this point clear to me.—I am, Sir, &c., Fee/Noise Laerrrz.
[We regret that in our review the Prix Goncourt for 1910 was erroneously assigned to Madame Marguerite Audoux, whose name, proposed by M. Octave Mirbeau, himself a member of the Academie Goncourt, and generally supported by his colleagues, was finally withdrawn on the ground of her election meanwhile to a similar prize offered by a Paris newspaper, with the result that it was M. Louis Pergaud who received tho award in question for his volume of animal stories, "De Goupil a Margot."—En. Spectator.]
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