31 MAY 1902, Page 17

FIVE STUART PRINCESSES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."J

Sna,—In the review of " Five Stuart Princesses " in the Spectator of May 24th them occurred the following criticism on my essay :—" An awful example of the need of verifying quotations is afforded by the fact that Mr. Hodgkin puts `sun' instead of moon' in the last line of the first verse of Sir Henry Wotton's exquisite verses " addressed to the Queen of Bohemia. Allow me to point out to your reviewer that my supposed error is not an error, but an intentional reversion to the original text of the poem. This may be found (according to the reference which I gave in "Five Stuart Princesses") on p. 518 of the first edition of " Reliquiae Wottonianae."—I am,