6 OCTOBER 1894, Page 16

"THE CONFESSIONS OF A CURRENCY GIRL." [To THE EDITOR ON

THE "SPECTATOR."] Sir,—In the review in the Spectator of July 14th, on a novel called "The Confessions of a Currency Girl," it is stated that the adjective applies in Australia to those who have been convicts or to their families. May I point out that this statement is altogether erroneous P The term originated in the days when the circulation included both English money and dollars, the latter being called currency. As the dollars were legal tender only in Australia, boys and girls born in the Colony were spoken of as "currency," and the title does not now, and never did, imply convict parentage even,—I am, Sir, &c.,