THE LATE MR. WALKER.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR "]
you allow me to say a word with reference to my brother, Mr. Walker, whose name forms the text for your article of November 30th on " The Great Contractors " P The writer says :—" Force of character may be possessed, as we all see this week, by the Welsh workhouse lad." This sentence certainly does not refer to Mr. Walker; but I find that some readers, and notably some of his own kinsmen, have supposed it to do so, and appealed to me to protest. I am anxious, therefore, just to say that my brother was Scotch by descent on both sides of the house; and that he was not a workhouse lad, but a man of early and thorough education.—
I am, Sir, &c., A. L. COGHILL. We cannot imagine what our correspondent means. The sentence was intended to point the contrast between Mr. Stanley's success and Emin Pasha's failure.—En. Spectator.]
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