19 MAY 1928, Page 20

REAL PEOPLE IN BOOKS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sm,—May I point out an error in Mr. Bassett Digby's article, " Real People in Books," in your issue of May 12th ?

The late Canon Frederic Evans, Rector of Bedworth, was nephew of George Eliot, his father, Mr. Isaac Evans, was her brother and the original of Tom Tulliver.

My brother was Vicar of the " Shepperton Church" of Scenes of Clerical Life, from 1887 to 1914. During the earlier years Mr. Isaac Evans was churchwarden, and was succeeded in that office by his son, Mr. Walter Evans, brother of Canon Evans.—I am, Sir, &c., The Tower, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.

E. CHADWICK.