RECOLLECTIONS OF LADY GEORGIANA PEEL. [To ma EDITOR or Tag
" SPECTATOR...1
Si,—Had not forty-odd years of reading in the Spectator put me in wholesome and respectful awe of its personality there is that in last week's ieaue that might have tempted me to submit the following letter for your indulgent consideration:— " Sta.—May I suggest that the authority for the story of the Cockney Hairdresser's solecism (the story about the cholera having got into the Weir is that classic of the million Enquire within upon Everything (par. 172), and not Lady Georgians Peel and her distinguished father, and that it is
grievous to find such .errors in a periodical of fine classical -traditions ?
[Signed] THEOPONF US Boos. World's College, Globeville." When cholera was still an evil remembrance to our elders, in our childhood's days, this story, if I do not mistake,-was than looked upon as a ripe chestnut, and was roasted accordingly. It is depressing to an old stager to find it served now as from some particular tree growing in some particular somebody's particular back ..garden. Moreover, if a slight to Dioderus Siculus is so vexatious to the classical mind how much -greater that to so impressive a British masterpiece! However, time wan when the knocking of double chestnuts from topmost boughs was an easier and more exhilarating adventure: alas, the time- stiffened elbow 1—I am, Sir, &c., Wrtasen CORNER. 3 Ann Street, Hillhead, Glasgow.
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