3 OCTOBER 1896, Page 13

THE ATROCITIES IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—How often do those who quote Shakespeare lay them- selves open to answer by not regarding the context ? The Salisbury of King John has to confess that his honest hatred of wrong has led him and his followers into a position alike

unpatriotic and untenable :—

"I am not glad that such a sore of time Should sevk a plaister in contetnn'd revolt, And heal the inveterate canker of one wound By making many."

They gladly seize the opportunity, which does not always come, of retrieving a mistake.—I am, Sir, &c.,

Kitlands, Holmwood, Surrey. H. E. MALDEN.