A LANDOR ANECDOTE.
[To THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTLTOR:] SIR,—As the editor of "The Life and Times of Mrs. Sherwood," I am very glad to see Mr. Wheeler's identification (in your issue of April 30th) of Landor in Walter " Larnder." But I hardly think Mr. Wheeler is quite fair in abusing the index entry as " insignificant and misleading." I frankly admit that I did not recognise Landor in this strange guise : are there many readers who would, or who would pronounce the name thus to-day? Mrs. Sherwood certainly wrote "Larnder," and her version is, therefore, a valuable piece of phonetic history. She misspelt other names in similar ways. I have identified many of them, and no trace of her version in such cases appears in the Life. But is this failure to be " precise" such a crime as the tone of Mr. Wheeler's letter implies
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