The Lord Chief Justice has this week been the victim
of the gossips. They have asserted persistently, and in print, that he had proposed to Miss Mary Anderson, the American actress who draws crowds to the Lyceum mainly by the fame of her beauty, and had been rejected. The story, becoming tiresome from repetition, Lord Coleridge put his foot on it, in the follow- ing letter to the Pall 3fall Gazette :—
"Sol,—It would be affectation to doubt that the paragraph headed (The Judge and the Actress,' in your paper this evening, refers to me. I desire, in the fewest possible words, to state that I never had the pleasure of seeing Miss Anderson in my life, either in public or private, and that I never wrote a line to her. The whole matter is an absolute and impudent falsification.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "1 Sussex Square, W., March 26th. COLERIDGE."
The Archbishop of Canterbury is, fortunately, married, and cannot, therefore, be announced as an unsuccessful suitor to any American whatever. But for that protection, he would, in the new degradation of the public mind, be given away twice a week.
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