THE MODESTY OF A WESLEYAN.
(TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—Your reviewer may well say of the Rev. Arthur Male, that "of his own claims to rank as Anglican apostle of that country our author is too modest to say anything." As a matter of fact, Mr. Male is not, and was not at the time of the Afghan Campaign, an Anglican clergyman, but a Wesleyan minister, acting, by permission of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, as chaplain to Wesleyan and other Nonconformist troops.
But, Sir, your reviewer is not to blame. The mistake is one into which a non-Wesleyan would naturally—nay, inevitably —fall. At the door of Mr. Male's " modesty" must the blame be laid. Throughout " Scenes through the Battle-Smoke," our author's modesty avoids most scrupulously all reference to the Society by whose good offices he found himself in India at the time of the Afghan Campaign, and the Connexion in which he holds ministerial position.
Asking your indulgence for making a brief correction, which, I fear, our author's modesty would compel him to leave un-
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