THACKERA.Y AND THE "SPECTATOR."
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "1 Sin,—May I, as an old lady entitled to be reminiscent and garrulous, "bestow my tediousness upon you" in a little anecdote which relates to the Spectator In 1847 we were living in Paris in the Rne Nenve de Berri. One morning I saw my father (Admiral—then Captain—Wormeley) putting the Spectator into his coat-pocket. " Oh ! father," I cried, " please don't take it away. It only came this morning." " Yes, yes, my dear," he answered ; " I must take it at once to Mrs. Carmichael Smyth. It has a nice review of her son's serial in it. Only yesterday she was lamenting to me that no notice seemed to be taken by the Press of William's book, while so much was being said of Dickens's new novel, and, for her part, she did not see that 'Dombey and Son' was more worthy of notice than -Vanity Fair." They were both coming out as serials,—" Vanity Fair" in yellow covers,
"Dombey " in green.—I am, Sir, &c., E. W. LATIMER.
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