3 FEBRUARY 1906, Page 15

TROLLOPE'S LIFE OF MOLIERE.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOE.1 SIR,—Your reviewer in his notice of this work in the Spectator of January 27th leaves it to be inferred that Moliere was, "after hesitation" on the part of Archbishop and cure, buried, not only in consecrated ground, but "with a solemn service." May I be permitted to point out that this was not the case P Moliere's funeral took place at night, without religious rite of any kind. The Archbishop—under pressure from Louis XIV., it is supposed—finally conceded "a little earth." But his concession stopped there.—I am, Sir, &c.,