25 JANUARY 1908, Page 32

FOREIGN MARRIAGES.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J

SIR,—Your "News of the Week" note (Spectator, January 18th) about Anglo-French marriages contains inaccuracies which may cause a foreign reader to wonder, perhaps to blunder. (1) In omitting to say that the particular marriage took place in England you omit the absolutely central fact; (2) it is incorrect to say that "English law does not recognise foreign divorce laws or laws of nullity,"—even when different from