28 OCTOBER 1893, Page 15

ARCHBISHOP MAGEE.

[To THE EDITOR OE THE "SrEcxaron."] SIR,—Your allusion to the late Master of Balliol's sermon, in the Spectator of October 7th, on Dean Stanley and his pretty conceit, that "if it rained mitres, none would have fitted the Dean's head," reminds us, who live in the diocese of Peter- borough, of a famous mot of Archbishop Magee. Pestered to give a living to a candidate whom he thought most unfit for preferment, he turned round to the importunate applicant and said, "Sir, if it rained livings from Heaven, the only thing I could do would be to offer your friend an umbrella."—