5 AUGUST 1871, Page 15

A CORRECTION.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,-1 cannot pass over a slip in your number Wilma to-day which gives the credit of the best of all classical puns to the Whig pedant Parr. It belongs of right to the Tory Dean of St. Patrick's, Dr. Swift. See Dr. Delany's " Observations upon Lord Orrery'a Remarks," &e. ; London, 1754. If you correct this you will greatly oblige the shade of