THE LATE DR. MARTINEAU.
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I shall be glad if you will permit me to correct one or two inaccuracies in the review of Mr. Jackson's "Study of Dr. Martineau." It is not the fact that Dr. Martineau studied at Glasgow University ; he took his College course at Man- chester College,- which was then established at York. Possibly the erroneous statement may be due to the reference to Glasgow University (on p. 13), which, however, it will be
seen, relates not to him, but to Dr. Lant Carpenter. I must make a passing protest against the designation of Manchester College as "Unitarian," as my father was never tired of explaining and vindicating its undoetrinal basis, which is also well set forth by Mr. Jackson. As regards the change in his philosophical views, my father repeatedly said, and has himself explained (in the preface to his "Types of Ethical Theory," quoted by Mr. Jackson), that it was the result of his attending Professor Trendelenburg's lectures in Berlin (in company with the late Mr. R. H. Hutton) in winter of 1848-49, which was long before he could have been influenced in that respect by either Browning or Tennyson.—I am, Sir, 8 Eldot _Road, Hampstead.
BASIL MARTINEAU.
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