16 FEBRUARY 1901, Page 15

A CORRECTION.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—In your notice of my translation of M. Jules Roy's Life of St. Nicholas in the Spectator of February 9th, you point out a confusion of dates, for which only I am responsible. M. Roy does not make Gregory I., Chrodegand of Metz, and the Emperor Charlemagne all live in the eighth century ; but I did with a carelessness which has earned for translators the epithet of traitor, one that in this instance at least is deserved