27 NOVEMBER 1880, Page 16

"A SAILOR'S SWEETHEART."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 di Sin,—Your critic, in reviewing "A Sailor's Sweetheart," speaks of the " Wreck of the ' Grosvenor' " as a one-volume story, and compares my venturesomeness in following that narrative with a three-volume novel to the riskiness of a flourishing junior. taking " silk." The " Wreck of the ' Grosvenor,' " when first published, was not only in three volumes, but was longer by about forty pages than " A Sailor's Sweetheart." As to the want of unity in the scheme of the story, I would ask your critic to consider what artistic sequences he is going to get from.

shipwreck P—I am, Sir, &c., W. CLARK RUSSELL. Granville Villa, Ramsgate, November 21st.

[Mr. Russell should read "The Green Hand."—En. Spectator.]