26 JUNE 1909, Page 34

HALF-A-CENTURY OF VOLUNTEERING. [To THE EDITOR OR THE ''SREOTATOR,"] SIR,

In your notice of the book entitled "Fifty Years of It," which appears in your notice of June 19th, you make reference to the author as "Mr. Macdonald." It would, I humbly suggest, have enhanced your notice if it had been stated that "J. H. A. Macdonald" is the Right Hon. Lord Kingsburgb, K.C.B., Lord Justice-Clerk (Scotland). In any case, the author might have been alluded to as "Sir" in place of "Mr." His designation in "The Territorial Year Book" is Colonel Right Hon. Sir J. H. A. Macdonald, K.C.B., VD., Queen's R.V. Brigade Royal Scots (King's Body Guard for Scotland).—I am, Sir, &c.,

[We can only plead guilty, and throw ourselves upon the mercy of a Judge known to be as high-minded as he is learned.—En. Spectator.]