28 APRIL 1900, Page 28

" THE ELECT LADY. "

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am sure Mr. Mason will share my regret that, by a singular lapse of memory, the existence of "the elect lady" —Lady Huntingdon—was forgotten by me when I introduced an "elect lady '' into "Parson Kelly." Had my memory played me true the slip would not have occurred. We well knew that John Wesley was a Charterhouse boy, and also that Bill, not Nick Wogan, was educated there, but novelists are allowed to take even greater liberties with historic facts.