12 JUNE 1909, Page 19

A CORRECTION.

[TO Tits EDITOR OP T1111 "SPEOPITOR.1 SIR,—May I be allowed to correct your kindly reviewer of my book, "The Inns of Court," in your last week's issue, in one small point upon which ho unintentionally misrepresents mo P Nobody, I think, could have is keener appreciation of the charm and beauty of "open spaces of grass and flowers" in a city than myself, or could be more ready to exclaim with Disraeli "How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence !" I should be the last, therefore, to apply the epithet "ugly" to the Middle Temple Garden. I apply it, on pp. 74 and 84, to the

buildings which rejoice in the perhaps misleading title of 'Temple