7 SEPTEMBER 1872, Page 18

A HARD CASE!

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUE"SPECTATOR.']

Stn.—Your review on my volume of poems might be fair enough, if you had neither received my two first volumes or my pamphlet -on "Free-Will," which distinctly states that my works are to be taken as a whole. As things are, it is simply a disgrace to your [This gentleman's expectation that all his works should be considered and criticised as a whole strikes us as slightly unreason- able. Besides, he would have to wait, like Crcesus, to the end of his life to be reviewed at all.—En. Spectator.]