[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—Whilst Mr. Maxwell's friends are much indebted to you for your able article upon his case, there are two points upon which I would ask leave to offer a correction :—
1. Mr. J. B. Allen, the Head Master, who dismissed Mr. Maxwell, is not in holy orders. His crusade against Noncon- formity has not even the poor plea of professional prejudice to palliate it.
2. When, at the eleventh hour, new excuses for Mr. Maxwell's dismissal became necessary, the adverse report of a single examiner was disinterred to substantiate them. But that report related (not, as you have naturally imagined, from the way in which it was cited, to English, but) to Latin alone ; and to one-fourth only of Mr. Maxwell's Latin teaching,—in other words, to merely one fortieth of his whole school-work. This explains why that Report was deemed by the Head Master too trivial for any hint of its- existence to be given to Mr. Maxwell, until it was too late for him to profit by the warning.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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