29 JANUARY 1887, Page 15

" A SON OF HAGAR." I To Tan Barron or

Tire "SrearsTon.-1 'SIR,—I shall be glad if you will permit me to say thus early that I am revising for a second edition my novel which was published last week, and that by the advice and instruction of friends in the law, I am removing the legal informalities which disfigure the trial for ejectment in the third volume. In writing this portion of the story, I tried to follow the report of an action brought by the brother of William Roupell, and the changes on that model which make the trial impossible were suggested by a desire to make it dramatic and human. It was an error of judgment that came of deficient knowledge and blind love of my people.—I am, Sir, &c.,

HALL CAINE.

Aherleigh Lodge, Bexley Heath, January 28th.