" STRITWWELPETER."
[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The author of the article on "Struwwelpeter," in the Spectator of September 29th, says :—" No infant, however precocious, could shed tears of sensibility over the Struw- welpeter.' " If this were the case, surely it would not be to the credit of that charming book on which I was "brought up," and of which I know every line and word ; and any storiea which excite pity, as some of these very realistic tales do, are likely to cause tears in a sensitive child. As a matter of fact,. I was present at a children's party at the house of one of our professors here not very long ago, where my sister was reading aloud to a group of little children the story of " Robert's very Local Storm," and by the time it was finished, a little girl was discovered crying so bitterly that we thought she must be feeling unwell, but we soon found out that her distress was only caused by the fact that " Bob was never seen again."--, I am, Sir, &c.,
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