"PORTRAITS OF PUBLIC CHARACTERS."
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
SIR—I will not complain of your criticism in the Spectator of last Saturday, on my new book, Portraits of Public Characters, or Personal Sketches of the • most Eminent Men of the _bay, though I may think that criticism unduly severe; but I am sure you will do me the justice to allow me to obviate a mis- conception as to a matter of fact. Some of your remarks would lead to the conclusion, that the Sketches of Public Men contained in my present work Lad been written for my Random Recollections of the Lords and Commons, and had only now been published separately because 1 could not get them into that work. I will not occupy any more of your space than simply to state, that while Random Recollections was published five years ago, all the Sketches of Public Men contained in my present two volumes were written within the last eighteen months, and in the express intention of appearing, as they now do, as a separate and complete work. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JAMES GRANT, Author of " Portraits of Public Characters."
[Dow any of our remarks should "lead to the conclusion" suggested by Mr. GRANT, passes understanding. The "remarks" alluded to were- " These volumes are in reality a receptacle for the persons whom this writer could not hitch into his previous publications, either because they did not fall under the class to which he had confined himself, or because they were then unknown to fume, or, lucky people! had escaped the notice of Mr. GRANT."— ED.]
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